If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.

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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

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