Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

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

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

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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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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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Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.

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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

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