I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.


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It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes becaus...
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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and th...
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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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Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.
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Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your ne...
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it ...
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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...
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited...
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What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest o...
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A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West t...
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Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...
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Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, ...
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One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a stat...
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this...
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is requir...
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary onl...
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good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the...
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has eve...
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
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The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
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One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-pla...
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I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any ob...
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The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and blac...
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Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely inter...
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It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myse...
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is ...
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The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They kept returning to the same things. A sing...
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That bowl of soup—it was dearer than freedom, dearer than life itself, past, present, and future.
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Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold?
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Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'reje...
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Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and t...
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Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
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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 always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
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...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've...
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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who...
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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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It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
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