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«When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.»
«Our envy of others devours us most of all»
«The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Art,
Literature
| Keywords:
literature, one and only, substitute, The One and Only
«The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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agreements, banish, banishes, in agreement, mutual, righteousness, The Task
«One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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achievement, affection, aspire, beast, direct, direct marketing, For each, gnaw, gnawed, gnawing, gnaws, gnaw at, human beings, idol, in a higher place, market, mutual, mutual affection, prey, preyed, preying, preys, the market, to a higher place
«For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.»
«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.»
«In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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category, Category As, in the same category, pillar, pillared, The State
«Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them»
Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Patriotism
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assessment, claims, eagerness, frank, implies, penitence, uncritical, unjust, unqualified, unwavering
«I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.»
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