Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. If only it… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“From our experience of the past and our literature of the past we have derived a naïve faith in the power of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand… — 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
Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“(Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this concept of "guilt," and of the guilty or… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous… — 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 Image
“...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 Image
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 Image
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
