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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Bag Country Language Make Mankind Only People Salvation Travel
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The Salvation Of Mankind Lies Only In Making Everything The Concern Of All
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
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Conquer Himself Lose Man Process Soul
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual
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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Affectionate Belong Convict Country Education Literature Say
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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Always Easier Elevation Freedom People Religion Towards
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
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
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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Any Been Conduct Design Difficult Great Kind Point Real Reform Some
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Experience Generation Literature Living Transmit Way
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim 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
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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Above Apprentice Artist Assume Force God Heaven Him Realize Small Supreme Under Work
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
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Become Literature Living Memory Nation
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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Corse Dimension Endless Exist Face God Religion Represent Some
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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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Attractiveness Discover Else Someone Truth
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
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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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
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

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