If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYNAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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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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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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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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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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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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For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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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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