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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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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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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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 battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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