Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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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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