Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every 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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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