There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFirst 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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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 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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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 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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