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In all relationships, there are always aching holes and that's where the impossible wishes come into it.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

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Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.

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The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

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The less you speak, the more you will hear.

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A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.

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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

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