Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human...

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind