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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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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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