We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is … - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

Allowed, Dog, Long, Tormented, Voice

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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.

Attitude, Blessing, Contentment, Depend, Ethic, External

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

Cowardice, Evil, Reap, Sacrifice, Wisdom

The less you speak, the more you will hear.

Hear, Introvert, People, Speak

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.

Age, Art, Fall, Live, Turn, Verification

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

Goal, Man, Men, Set, Soul, World