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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Own only what...
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your...
Literature transmits incontrovertible...
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience . . . from generation to generation. In this way literature...
Generosity is a...
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his...
It is not...
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at...
A great writer...
A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great...
Blow the dust...
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you...
Not everything has...
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
Source:...
The salvation of...
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Source:...
Human beings yield...
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's...
I am of...
I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more...
Literature that is...
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society...
The line separating...
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -- but right through...
A man is...
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
Source:...
Everything you add...
Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
Source: In
You only have...
You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of...
It is the...
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice...
Justice is conscience,...
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly...
In our country...
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Hastiness and superficiality...
Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this...
Woe to that...
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with...