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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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The Salvation Of Mankind Lies Only In Making Everything The Concern Of All
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Bag Country Language Make Mankind Only People Salvation Travel
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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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
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.
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Above Apprentice Artist Assume Force God Heaven Him Realize Small Supreme Under Work
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
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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Clock Come Communism Concrete Crash Freedom Instead Stop Strunk
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
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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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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
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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Always Easier Elevation Freedom People Religion Towards
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Bury Civilization Forever Next War Western
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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Battle Evil Heart Man
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual

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