It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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Only those who decide to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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