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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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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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
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
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Abundance Always Conscious Object Share Talent
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Communication Country Deal Live Lon Many People
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
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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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
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
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Conquer Himself Lose Man Process Soul
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
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
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
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

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