Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNLiterature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
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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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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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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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