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

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The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

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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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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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