The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNTalent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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