Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNToday 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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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 us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.
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