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«We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.»
«A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.»
«Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow»
«You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.»
«A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.»
«It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?»
«How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.»
«I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interests.»
«Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]»
«Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.»

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