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" A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. "
Be Happy
Stop
Man
" Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle. "
Violence
Take
Who
" Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. "
Violence
Principle
Lying
" A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny. "
Tyranny
War
Domestic
" Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. "
Day
Open
Outside
" For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. "
People
Lion
Living
" Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. "
Disease
Than
Psychic
" How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? "
Understand
Warm
You
" Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. "
Spiritual
Important
Long
" If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being? "
Forever
Cautious
Human Being
" I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. "
Man
Society
My Life
" In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. "
Just
Country
Moral
" 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 is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones. "
Truth
See
Mistakes
" It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. "
Human Rights
Time
Rights
" 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. "
Conscience
Humanity
Justice
" Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. "
Living
Memory
Generation
" Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. "
World
Soul
Processes
" Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. "
Beyond
Everything
Words
" Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. "
Travel
People
Know
" The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man. "
Good
Man
Heart
" The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. "
Communism
Down
Try
" The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. "
Mankind
Salvation
Everything
" Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. "
Lie
Only
Maintained
" We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. "
Arrived
Chaos
Intellectual
" Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. "
Memory
Short
Nation
" You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. "
You
Power
People
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