For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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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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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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