Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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