The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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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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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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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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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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