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- Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but…
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
- He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,…
- In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it,…
- What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang…
- ... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
- You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with…
- And keep as few things as possible, so that you don't have to fear for them. Give them up without a struggle-because otherwise the humiliation…
- Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.
- Shall I describe the happiness it gave me to go into the classroom and pick up the chalk? ... It seemed to me the supreme,…
- The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even…
- Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
- To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
- It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that…
- If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60…
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