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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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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
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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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
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
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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Country Dead Dog Lion Living May People
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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Clock Come Communism Concrete Crash Freedom Instead Stop Strunk
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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Bury Civilization Forever Next War Western
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
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
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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Communication Country Deal Live Lon Many People
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual
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
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Conquer Himself Lose Man Process Soul
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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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth

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