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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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