Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNIt 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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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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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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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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
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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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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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