For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNJustice 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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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