For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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