Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
Russian Novelist
Lived from: 1918 - 2008
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Russia
Born: 11 december 1918 Died: 3 august 2008
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
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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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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.
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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 next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
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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. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
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When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
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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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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power - he's free again.
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