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.
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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heartAlexander Solzhenitsyn
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
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Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to serve, not support for unjust claims, but frank assessment of its vices and sins, and penitence for them
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We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.
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Only those who decide to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
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