Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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