In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every 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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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