“Wherever they went—Moscow, Tehran, the Syrian coast, Switzerland—a furnished house, villa, or apartment awaited the young couple. And their philosophies of life… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Should a man, to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour, scent and excitement? Can one accept a life of… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“That wasn't like spying. Any fool can spy. A spy has a clean, exciting life. But try and spend ten years in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“My life is over, a little early to be sure; but there's nothing to be done about it. I shall never return… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal… — 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
A whole week, a single campaign, a month, a week, even a day was far more than enough to cut a company… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — 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
