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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

When you have robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power. He is free again.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power --he's free again.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

In our country, the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

- Alexander Solzhenitsyn