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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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Bury Civilization Forever Next War Western
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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm

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