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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNJustice 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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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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 would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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