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.
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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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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