Every night Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one…

— Eric Bogosian

“Chekhov, knowing the weight of his own country’s history of serfdom, spoke of how Russians must squeeze the slave out of themselves, drop by…

— Adam Hochschild

"Do you know," Ivan Bunin recalls Anton Chekhov saying to him in 1899, near the end of his too-short life, "for how many years…

— Anton Chekhov

“He had maintained from the beginning that he had wanted only his freedom. And that was exactly what he had been given. ‘I always…

— C.S. Pacat

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

— Salman Rushdie

“Maybe because he’d been exiled from paradise by a beast of his own making. Because he’d decided Freedom was home, and he couldn’t come…

— Margaret Killjoy

“A tub was brought in to melt snow for mortar. They heard somebody saying it was twelve o'clock already. "It's sure to be twelve,"…

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Chekhov's stories are about the moment that a life goes off the rails and the price that will be paid - forever. That's a…

— Lorin Stein

“The young man left his uncle's office, eyes filled with tears; yet he braced himself against dispair. 'I have no more than a single…

— Jules Verne

“Freedom meant one thing to him—home. But they wouldn't let him go home.”

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“None of it mattered. He would just keep living. They'd taken his freedom, his family, his friends, and— most dear of all— his dreams. They could…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky