If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNReligion 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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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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