Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
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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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No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I'm ready to accept even death.
[Truth]
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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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One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human biengs.
[Greatness]
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other,
[Affection]
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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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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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Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
[Talent]
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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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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The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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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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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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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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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
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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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