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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Foreign policy, considering our current situation and possibilities, is being conducted sensibly and...
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If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since...
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform...
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ...
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Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
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Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and ...
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who...
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History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.
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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...
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
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- Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
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So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
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The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
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(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
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Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
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At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
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Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
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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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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
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By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
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I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
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That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
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You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
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Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
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Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
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On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
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As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
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Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
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I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
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Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
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Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
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Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
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As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
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Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
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Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
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