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  1. Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many…
  2. Harvard's motto is 'Veritas.' Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us…
  3. I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less : than I do to Russian literature. I got my education ther…
  4. I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one i…
  5. I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.
  6. Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in th…
  7. Proverbs about truth are well-loved in Russian. They give steady and sometimes striking expression to the not inconsiderable harsh national…
  8. A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its ci…

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