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"The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception."

"There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it."

"The families of Aboriginals who have died in custody in NSW will suffer again because of these white lies."

"Unless a man feels he has a good enough memory, he should never venture to lie."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"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."

"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."

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The Communist leaders respect only firmness and have contempt for persons who continually give in to them."
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