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Small: Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way liter
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this di
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word modernity
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Literature becomes the living memory of a nation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Literature becomes the living memory of a nation"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required princip
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be y
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were beg
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easi
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones"
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author
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Small: Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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Small: Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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Small: It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a mans life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accum
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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Small: If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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Small: We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow sudden
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken"
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist
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Small: War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves
Leo Tolstoy
"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some
Leo Tolstoy
"To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assu
Leo Tolstoy
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot them
Leo Tolstoy
"If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love
Leo Tolstoy
"If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
Leo Tolstoy
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us
Leo Tolstoy
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live
Leo Tolstoy
"Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced
Leo Tolstoy
"Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in o
Leo Tolstoy
"And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do no
Leo Tolstoy
"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in
Leo Tolstoy
"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you
Leo Tolstoy
"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of
Leo Tolstoy
"In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, univers
Leo Tolstoy
"Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything e
Leo Tolstoy
"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of ou
Leo Tolstoy
"The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life"
Leo Tolstoy, Novelist
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Small: The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic
Joseph Stalin
"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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Small: Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fu
Joseph Stalin
"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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Small: In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance
Joseph Stalin
"In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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Small: If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves
Joseph Stalin
"If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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Small: If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a peace conference, you can be sure his government has a
Joseph Stalin
"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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Small: I trust no one, not even myself
Joseph Stalin
"I trust no one, not even myself"
Joseph Stalin, Leader
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