It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNNot everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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