“Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.”
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Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.
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.
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.
