Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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.
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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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