Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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