Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“They dream of the happiness of stretching out one's legs and of the relief one feels after going to the toilet. In… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good, or else that it's a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more… — 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
Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“So in our own poor hides and from our miserable comrades we learn the nature of satiety. Satiety depends not at all… — 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
