Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNI 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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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 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.
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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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When 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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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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