Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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