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"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
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"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
"If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?"
Being
"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
Government
"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."
Heart
"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."
Lie
"You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power."
Power
"The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage."
Society
"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
Design
"First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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