Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHow can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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 would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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