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I believe that world literature has it in its power to help mankind, in these its troubled hours, to see itself as it really is, notwithstanding the indoctrinations of prejudiced people and parties.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Nobel lecture (1970)

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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.

The First Circle (1968)

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.

At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years.

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

The Gulag Archipelago (1973)

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

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