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It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.
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Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
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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.
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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.
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If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
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Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
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You can 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.
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The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
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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.
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You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.
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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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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.
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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.
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