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.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
More Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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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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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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