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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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Communist Individual Life Objective One Scale Spent Tell Terrible Under
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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Bag Country Language Make Mankind Only People Salvation Travel
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
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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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
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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Above Apprentice Artist Assume Force God Heaven Him Realize Small Supreme Under Work
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
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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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Experience Generation Literature Living Transmit Way
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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Corse Dimension Endless Exist Face God Religion Represent Some
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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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
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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Affectionate Belong Convict Country Education Literature Say
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim Violence

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