How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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 clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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