Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relationships, this creates an atmosphere of spiritual mediocrity that paralyzes a person's noblest… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The strength or weakness of a society depends more on the level of its spiritual life than on its level of industrialization.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But this became the first plan of his life to fail. God told him - apparently with the help of human hands… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The meaning of existence was to preserve untarnished, undisturbed and undistorted the image of eternity which each person is born with -… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“When our life crackles and sparks like a torch, we curse the necessity of spending eight hours uselessly in sleep. When 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
“… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“If humanism were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die. Since his… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“One thing about women Yefrem had found out in his life: they cling.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Children write essays in school about the unhappy, tragic, doomed life of Anna Karenina . But was Anna really unhappy? She chose… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Each person has his special moment of life when he unfolded himself to the fullest, felt to the deepest, and expressed himself… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Look around you--there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. — 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
