Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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