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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNTalent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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