We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He who knows how to be content will be content with little. — 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
... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When we feel that we are not sufficiently respected, we should ask ourselves whether we are living as we should. — 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… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
... human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions ... — 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
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
