Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNFirst would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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