We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNMan has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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