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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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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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Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Attractiveness Discover Else Someone Truth
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Arrive Choas Intellectual
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
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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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Clear Everywhere Lot Thinker
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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Necessary Philosophy Political Principle Request Require Spiritual
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Experience Generation Literature Living Transmit Way
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Force Man Method Once Principle Proclaim Take Violence
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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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Conquer Himself Lose Man Process Soul
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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Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
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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Communication Country Deal Live Lon Many People
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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Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch
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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Being Caution Forever Human Remain
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Add Everything Subtract Truth
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
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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Any Been Conduct Design Difficult Great Kind Point Real Reform Some
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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Country Dead Dog Lion Living May People
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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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Affectionate Belong Convict Country Education Literature Say

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