Russian - Author | December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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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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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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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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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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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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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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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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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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
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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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