The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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