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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The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.
A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
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.
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
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.
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.
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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.
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.
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.

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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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