Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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