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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.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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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.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
Alexander Solzehnitsyn
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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