A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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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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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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