Russian - Author | December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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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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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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