Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNEverything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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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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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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