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 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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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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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 man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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