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  1. Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D'you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those w…
  2. 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 lon…
  3. The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing …
  4. 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 o…
  5. At no time has the world been without war. Not in seven or ten or twenty thousand years. Neither the wisest of leaders, nor the noblest of …
  6. We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters; boldly we direct it, we renew, reform and manifest it; we s…
  7. For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
  8. One artist sees himself as the creator of an independent spiritual world; he hoists onto his shoulders the task of creating this world, of …

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