Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel lecture (1970), as quoted in TIME (February 25, 1974).
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