Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNBlow 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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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