For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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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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In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
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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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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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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Today 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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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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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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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