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All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive it of its sovereignty.


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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I had a chance to read ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, bel...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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