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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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 battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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