Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely … - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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As a songwriter, your songs are, in a way, like your children - you want them to be appreciated.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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.

Excision, Freedom, Heart, Memories, Short, Woe

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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.

Attitude, Blessing, Contentment, Depend, Ethic, External

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.

Age, Art, Fall, Live, Turn, Verification

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

Goal, Man, Men, Set, Soul, World

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