Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word "modernity" if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.


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Repertory theater allows you to spend your whole life perfecting yourself.
ALEKSANDR KALYAGIN
In no other city in the world do you see what's happening in Moscow. In no other country is there so...
ALEKSANDR KALYAGIN
Knighthood. Was he even worthy? Just a little while ago, he’d have answered yes without a doubt, b...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
Life of excuses is a life of regret.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Past is just memories so leave good memories for yourself.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Life is amazing once you get to know it.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
People search for love based on appearance, but they forgot about attitude and personality.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
The meaning of life is to find a purpose to live for.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
“Thank God you are still alive for many have died and are dying as I speak. You still have the opp...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Morality, it is the most important characteristic of humanity, without it we are lost forever.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Morality, it is the most important characteristic of humanity, without it we are like animals.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Stop feeling sorry for yourself, get out and be what you wish to be.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
If you expect too much and do too little, you are bound for disappointment. If you talk too much and...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
We live in the 21st century, the wisest generation yet to come, where you have the freedom to say an...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, for
coming home, for dealing with all the sh...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
If you could only live once, once only, how would you live or change your life? Why don't you?
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
Think twice before you make a mistake that you'll regret for the rest of your life.
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV
I am a wanderer passionately in love with life.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN
You want the truth? I’ve been fucked and betrayed often enough to not trust anybody. And that incl...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
You must go deeper into Russia - 150 kilometres from Moscow or more, and look there. The kids are fe...
ALEKSANDR LEBED
There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
ALEKSANDR LEBED
In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty year...
ALEKSANDR LEBED
I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I...
ALEKSANDR LEBED
And this system sorted out the Chechen war in just 20 days. This way, I used the President's pow...
ALEKSANDR LEBED
It wasn't poverty that drove me on.
ALEKSANDR KUPRIN
He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed undernea...
ALEKSANDR VOINOV
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has eve...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
This book is an agglomeration of lean-tos and annexes and there is no knowing how big the next addit...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that ...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I'd rather have the United States be the world's policeman than the Soviet Union be the world's jail...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opp...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is m...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Our envy of others devours us most of all
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your m...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which ...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhe...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my gr...
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN