It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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