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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWhen truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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