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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAny man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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 next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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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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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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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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