A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no rTgime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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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 keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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