Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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 battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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