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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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim Violence
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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