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

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · Experience

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.

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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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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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Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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