We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIf one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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