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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Abundance Conscience Justice Object Share
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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Corse Dimension Endless Exist Face God Religion Represent Some
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.
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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
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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Above Apprentice Artist Assume Force God Heaven Him Realize Small Supreme Under Work
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Domestic Excuse Serve State Tyranny
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Battle Evil Heart Man
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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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Clock Come Communism Concrete Crash Freedom Instead Stop Strunk
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through
Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
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Any Been Conduct Design Difficult Great Kind Point Real Reform Some
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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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
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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Communist Individual Life Objective One Scale Spent Tell Terrible Under
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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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
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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Country Dead Dog Lion Living May People
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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Become Category Country Just Lie Moral Pillar State

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