Tag: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one’s well-being.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn