Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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.
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