"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."
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.“
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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."
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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."
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"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."
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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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"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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