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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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