First 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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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