It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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