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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThere are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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