Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFor 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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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