Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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