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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?


Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Jane Heard.
ONE I think that if there's one key insight science can bring to fiction, it's that fiction - th...
CHARLES STROSS We've been cautious for a while on the retailers. The one thing that's in their favor is that in the...
DAVID STRASSER Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.
KONSTANTIN TSIOLKOVSKY You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
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DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION One can remain eternally young if, each day, one grows rich by marvelous moments.
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NERRYMIAH SCIPIO A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.
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each d...
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FRANCO FRATTINI One entity lasts forever!_ Time, and this time exists within a 'being'_ God.
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NATHAN FILLION Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.
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ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persisten...
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ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.
SANTOSH KALWAR a lot of pressure for one human being.
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DAN SIMMONS I am just one human being.
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NELSON MANDELA Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAIS NIN Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
ANAïS NIN The moment WE realize our mistakes, our sins, our selfishness, the trouble we gave others, the pain ...
NEHA KOTHARI The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
GEORGE ORWELL And it should be about humanity which shouldn't have any colour , race or nationality.
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE One day without fun is one day lost forever
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OLIVER DEMILLE What kind of wife would I be if I left your father simply because he was dead?
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I had a chance to read ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, bel...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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