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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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| 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. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |
| For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 1918-, Russian Novelist |