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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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 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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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