Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNMan has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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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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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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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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