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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.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Being Central Human Important One Prolong Situation Spiritual
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Any Been Conduct Design Difficult Great Kind Point Real Reform Some
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Been Communism Design Difficult Follow Path Worse
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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Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
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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Affectionate Belong Convict Country Education Literature Say
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Add Everything Subtract Truth
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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Communication Country Deal Live Lon Many People
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
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Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
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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Comfortable Difficult Easiest Make Mistake Truth
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Beyond Everything Lead Realm Some Thing Word
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
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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Everything Long Only People Power Robbed Take
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through
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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Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Battle Evil Heart Man

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