In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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