It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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