- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
- Convict
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020