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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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