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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes: We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
         

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.


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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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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.



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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.



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The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.



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To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.



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That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life



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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.



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If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.





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