- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
- Convict
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
- Dawned
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- Nov 07, 2020
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
- Human Rights
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
- Everywhere
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.
- Exclude
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
- Elevation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020