Our envy of others devours us most of all.
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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Own only what you can carry with you know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn in speech to the graduating class at Harvard, 1978
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If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.
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