Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAny man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie 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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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