Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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