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Language Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature. We have been given a miraculous faculty: Despite the…
- Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
- How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
- [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp…
- Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory!…
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- The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson
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