Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAnyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
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You only have power over people so long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything, he’s no longer in your power – he’s free again.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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