Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Own 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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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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How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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 you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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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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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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