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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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