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Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
As the two-thousand-year-old saying goes, you can have eyes and still not see. But a hard life improves vision.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Work, he said, was a first-rate medicine for any illness.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The end of an unclouded day. Almost a happy one. Just one of the 3,653 days of his sentence, from bell to bell. The extra three were for leap years.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We have ourselves to save.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only a small crack ... but cracks make caves collapse.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
But we don't pray for that, I pray that I may do the will of God here. Give us this day ...
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
... the very concept of happiness is conditional, a fiction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have always had that inner drive, since my birth. And I have always devoted myself gladly to work - to work and to the struggle.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have grown used to the fact that public repentance is the most unacceptable option for the modern politician.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I was always optimistic. And I held to and was guided by my views.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I am a frail vessel full of errors.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Was it Gorky who said: If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A hard life improves the vision.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Shukhov had figured it all out. If he didn't sign he'd be shot. If he signed he'd still get a chance to live. So he signed.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Everyone is guilty of something or has something to conceal. All one has to do is look hard enough to find what it is.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
By now we are even unsure whether we have the right to talk about the events of our own lives.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You don't have to be very bright to carry a handbarrow. So the squad leader gave such work to people who'd been in positions of authority.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It was clearly a prisoner's craftwork; that is, the most painstaking work in the world, for prisoners have nowhere to hurry to.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What a force is laughter.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn