Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNMan has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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