Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNI 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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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 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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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