The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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