Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe 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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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