Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNTalent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, 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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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