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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Their teacher had...
Their teacher had advised them not to read Tolstoy novels, because they were very long and would easily confuse the...
Talent is always...
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
The sole substitute...
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and...
It is not...
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes . . . . we make mistakes because the easiest...
For a country...
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no r?gime has ever loved great...
Literature becomes the...
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Source: Speech, 1972.
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Forget the outside...
Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the...
When truth is...
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.
Nowadays we don't...
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we...
No one can...
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that...
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...