How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHuman beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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