Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor 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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Hastiness 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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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