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Prison Quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit…
- Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!
- He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales,…
- The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.
- It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good. Gradually it was…
- If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your…
- Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
- Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the…
- When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?
- Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object…
- You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
- Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.
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