Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNBlow 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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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