It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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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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