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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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