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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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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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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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