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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Bury Civilization Forever Next War Western
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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The Salvation Of Mankind Lies Only In Making Everything The Concern Of All
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 Long Only People Power Robbed Take
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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
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
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
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
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim Violence
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
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Always Easier Elevation Freedom People Religion Towards
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

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