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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Communist Individual Life Objective One Scale Spent Tell Terrible Under
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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Add Everything Subtract Truth
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
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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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
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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Communication Country Deal Live Lon Many People
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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Country Dead Dog Lion Living May People
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through
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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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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Abundance Conscience Justice Object Share
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Abundance Always Conscious Object Share Talent
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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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Bag Country Language Make Mankind Only People Salvation Travel

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