Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The line separating...

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either -- but right through...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A man is...

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.

Source:...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Everything you add...

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: You only have...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Justice is conscience,...

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: In our country...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: In our country...

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Hastiness and superficiality...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Hastiness and superficiality...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Woe to that...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Woe to that...

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Their teacher had...

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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Talent is always...

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The sole substitute...

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: It is not...

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes . . . . we make mistakes because the easiest...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: For a country...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature becomes the...

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Source: Speech, 1972.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Forget the outside...

Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: When truth is...

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of it attractiveness.

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Nowadays we don't...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 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...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: No one can...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: 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...

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