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"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."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages."
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"I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting."
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"There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping bloody champagne."
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"We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
Chaos
"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."
Government
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
Travel
"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
Art
"For me and my friends, for people who think the way I do over there, for all ordinary Soviet citizens, America evokes a mixture of admiration and compassion...You're a country of the future, a young country, with yet untapped possiblities, enormous territory, great breadth of spirit, generosity, magnanimity. But these qualities-strength, generosity, and magnanimity-are usually combined in a man and even in a whole country with trustfulness. And this has already done you a disservice several times."
Society
"When you have robbed a man of everything he is no longer in your power. He is free again."
Philosophy
"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme."
Government
"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."
Lie
"Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality, when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eyewash."
Productivity
"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
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