For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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