Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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 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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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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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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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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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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