The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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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 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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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