When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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 becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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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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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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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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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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