Literature Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . .…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn