When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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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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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