In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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