The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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There 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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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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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