"When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws."

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The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the differences of language, customs and social structure we are able to communicate life experience from one whole nation to another, to communicate a difficult national experience many decades long which the second of the two has never experienced.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn