The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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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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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