The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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