How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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