Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read."

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Against	Breath	Confidence	Contemporary
Dangers	Dares	Deserve	Facade
Fears	Instead	Literature	Loses
Moral	Name	Pains	People
Published	Read	Social	Society
Such	Threatening	Time	Transmit
Used	Warn	Wastepaper	Works

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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers -- such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn