It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Human 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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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