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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNHow can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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 clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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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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