We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He who knows how to be content will be content with little. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... direct [people] towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything . For a person you've taken everything from is no longer… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was astonishing that the pseudo wreckers, who knew perfectly well that they weren't wreckers, believed that military men and priests were being shaken… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
When the whole discussion of "developing a national idea" hastily began in post-Soviet Russia, I tried to pour cold water on it with the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest impulses. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
The same old caveman feeling-greed, envy, violence, and mutual hate, which along the way assumed respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial struggle, mass struggle,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share
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