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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 i...more

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I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not hav...more

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Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So wh...more

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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 wil...more

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The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

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No one can bar the road to truth and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.

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You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.

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Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense of the rights of others. A society wit...more

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No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbi...more

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Andrei Yanuaryevich (one longs to blurt out, “Jaguaryevich”) Vyshinsky, availing himself of the most flexible dialectics (of a sort nowadays not permi...more