Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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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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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 becomes the living memory of a nation.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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