Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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