When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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