“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.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: education
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“The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: design
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“Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Category: experience
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