If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt 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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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