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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Always Easier Elevation Freedom People Religion Towards
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Battle Evil Heart Man
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
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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Corse Dimension Endless Exist Face God Religion Represent Some
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
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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Affectionate Belong Convict Country Education Literature Say
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Add Everything Subtract Truth
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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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
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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Any Been Conduct Design Difficult Great Kind Point Real Reform Some
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Communist Individual Life Objective One Scale Spent Tell Terrible Under
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual

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