Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble–and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.
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Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.
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Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.
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A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but 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.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes. It may even lie on the surface; but we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotion—especially selfish ones.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn