The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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 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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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying 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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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