Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHow can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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