I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.


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For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has e...
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There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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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...
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But there is a limit, and beyond it one is no longer willing, one finds it too repulsive, to be a re...
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One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long...
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The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age!
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All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russia...
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All this leaves no doubt that they are preparing to completely encircle Russia and deprive it of its...
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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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That's why there's a devil—to judge the priests.
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Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
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The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
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[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor ye...
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Though it is clear that present-day Russia poses no threat to it, NATO is methodically and persisten...
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Foreign policy, considering our current situation and possibilities, is being conducted sensibly and...
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If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since...
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Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reform...
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ...
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Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswor...
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Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and ...
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I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who...
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History has in different questions laid out some tremendous turnabouts and curves.
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from...
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when yo...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere el...
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- Не иначе как двенадцать, - объявил и Шухов. - Солнышко н...
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My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.
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The fact that no one made demands on her knowledge in her special field was lucky for Simochka. Not ...
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So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
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The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
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(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
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Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
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At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
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The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
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Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
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For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
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By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
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I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
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That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
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You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
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Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
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Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
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On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
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As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
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Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
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I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
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Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
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Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
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Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
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As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
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Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
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Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
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