Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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