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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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...
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...