First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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