Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIn our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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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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