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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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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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