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.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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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.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn