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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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