How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNThe next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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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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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 name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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