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- Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
- I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and…
- I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all…
- A day without a dark cloud. Almost a happy day. There were three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days like that in his stretch. From…
- Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....
- In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,…
- Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them
- The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization. Neither a market…
- Communism will never be halted by negotiations or through the machinations of detente. It can only be halted by force from without or by disintegration…
- You get no thanks from your belly-it always forgets what you've just done for it and comes begging again the next day.
- People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
- The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the…
- You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with…
- If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your…
- Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the…
- And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation…
- ... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
- ... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from…
- Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
- The Gulag Archipelago, 'he informed an incredulous world that the blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million victims in Russia from 1918 to 1957! Solzhenitsyn…
- 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…
- Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
- Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we…
- If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate…
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- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle