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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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