It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
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About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a 20th-century Russian soviet-russian author and dissident. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth