A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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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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The 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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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