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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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 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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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