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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNA man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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 battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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