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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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