Short quotes

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Precipitation and shallowness are the chronic diseases of the century.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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A state at war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The person who is not internally prepared for violence is always weaker than the oppressor.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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It's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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Paraphrasing the wise: No one can think and hit someone at the same time.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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Depression is melancholy without its charms.

Susan Sontag

Susan Sontag

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I want to be able to be alone, find it nourishing, not just a wait.

Robert Spaemann

Robert Spaemann

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The dependence of people on television is the most destructive fact of current civilization.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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Time: what men always try to kill, but ends up killing them.