First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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