The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAnyone 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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. 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 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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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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