Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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