How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFirst 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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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