Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIn our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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