What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.
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ALEKSANDR LEBED In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty year... ALEKSANDR LEBED I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I... ALEKSANDR LEBED And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow... ALEKSANDR LEBED It wasn't poverty that drove me on. ALEKSANDR KUPRIN He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea... ALEKSANDR VOINOV Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has eve... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addit... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jail... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e... ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is m... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Our envy of others devours us most of all ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect... ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr... ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN