Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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