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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOf course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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