How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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