If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOur 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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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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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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