The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHow can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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