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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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