Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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