Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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