When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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 transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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