One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 Affection Happiness

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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. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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.

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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. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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.

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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. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

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.

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The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

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Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right

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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all

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Our envy of others devours us most of all - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Our envy of others devours us most of all

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The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature - Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature

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