Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."

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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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"The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man."

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"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."

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"Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth."

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"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."

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"The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever."

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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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"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

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