When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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