Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWoe 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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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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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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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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