Alexandr Solzhenitsyn quote: "It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn."

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has eve...
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
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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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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is m...
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fea...
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on...
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To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that i...
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I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system t...
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It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the fIrst stirr...
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.
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I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living ...
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
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This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addit...
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I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ...
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jail...
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
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He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surf...
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Our envy of others devours us most of all
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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
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I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes becaus...
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...
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A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime ...
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be...
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Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at ...
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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outwei...
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russia...
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated pe...
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly...
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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...
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us... than the need for any extern...
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The central government possesses no plan of finding the way out of this blind alley.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion e...
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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism,...
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been foll...
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The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some ...
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing dow...
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a sma...
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right...
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes becaus...
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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and th...
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word...
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited...
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What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t...
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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ...
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One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
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good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac...
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
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The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
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That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
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Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
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Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him. -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.

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