“Our life consists not in the pursuit of material success but in the quest for worthy spiritual growth. Our entire earthly existence is but a transitional stage in the movement toward something higher, and we must not stumble and fall,… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Then came the time for the evening visit to the toilet, for which, in all likelihood, you had waited, all atremble, all day. How… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Was it only that explosion of atavism which is now evasively called "the cult of personality" that was so horrible? Or was it even… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Evidently, evildoing also has a threshold magnitude. Yes, a human being hesitates and bobs back and forth between good and evil all his life.… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries. The defense… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Just as that puzzled savage who has picked up - a strange cast-up from the ocean? - something unearthed from the sands? - or… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Shukhov enjoyed it. He liked people pointing at him — see that man? He's nearly done his time — but he didn't let himself… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement is that? For a long time… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“But in the 17th century Russian Orthodoxy was gravely weakened by an internal schism. In the 18th, the country was shaken by Peter's forcibly… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
