Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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