We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
When Russia started to regain some of its strength as an economy and as a state, the West's reaction - perhaps a subconscious one, based on erstwhile fears - was panic.
For a country to have a great writer is to have another government.
... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.