For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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 sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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