The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNWe have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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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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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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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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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 the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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