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The Experience I'm Talking About Has Given Me One Certainty: The Salvation Of This Human World Lies Nowhere Else Than In The Human Heart, In The Human Power To Reflect, In Human Meekness And In Human Responsibility. Without A Global Revolution In Human Consciousness, Nothing Will Change For The Better, And The Catastrophe Toward Which This World Is Headed Will Be Unavoidable.

I Am Not Sure One Is Capable Of Reflecting Absurdity Without Having A Strong Sense Of Meaning. Absurdity Makes Sense Only Against A Meaningful Background. It Is The Deeper Meaning That Is Shedding Light On The Absurdity. There Must Be A Vanish Point, A Metaphysical Horizon If You Will Where Absurdity And Meaning Merge.

If A Single Writer In A Country Is In Chains, Then There Are Some Links Of That Chain That Binds Us All.

If [western] Relations With Russia Are To Be Friendly, They Must Be Open And Sincere, Otherwise There Can Be No Friendship At All. That Means One Should Be Able To Speak Openly About Everything At Meetings And Conferences. It Shouldn't Be That We Can't Discuss The Killing Of Journalists In Russia, Or The Suppression Of Human Rights, Or All The Warning Signs Surfacing In Russia Because Of Oil And Gas Or Other Economic Reasons. It's A Big Problem, But It's The Same In Western Relations With Arab States.

The Only Salvation Of The World Today... Is The Rapid Dissemination Of The Basic Values Of The West, That Is, The Ideas Of Democracy, Human Rights, The Civil Society, And The Free Market.