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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Being Caution Forever Human Remain
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Experience Generation Literature Living Transmit Way
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
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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Clock Come Communism Concrete Crash Freedom Instead Stop Strunk
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.
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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim Violence
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Attractiveness Discover Else Someone Truth
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The Salvation Of Mankind Lies Only In Making Everything The Concern Of All
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Bag Country Language Make Mankind Only People Salvation Travel
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
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.
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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer

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