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When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered! — 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

To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. — 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

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right. — 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

...if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have ourselves to save. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

She was wonderful, in spite of everything she was wonderful. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We have to condemn the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For me faith is the foundation and support of one's life. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Which of us can control his feelings? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you're young, you haven't the experience, when you're old you haven't the strength. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Bless you, prison, for having been in my life! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. — 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

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He'd planned on finding a miracle, and he'd found one. There were many other joys in store for him today in this newly born world... — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

That maxim of Descartes: "Question everything!" Question everything! — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A person who is not inwardly prepared for the use of violence against him is always weaker than the person committing the violence. There — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A great writer is, so to speak, a secret government in his country — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Education doesn't make you smarter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What's worse than cancer? Leprosy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us ... than the need for any external expansion of our power. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But food eaten quickly isn't food. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's warmed up a bit," Shukhov decided. "Eighteen below, no more. Good weather for bricklaying. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a force is laughter. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along. — 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

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

Freedom or prison
what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. — 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

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

By now we are even unsure whether we have the right to talk about the events of our own lives. — 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

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas. — 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 quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There can be no acceptable future without an honest analysis of the past. — 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

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A hard life improves the vision. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is a brave man who is the first to sit down during a standing ovation. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A forest doesn't weep over one tree. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If someone asked you, why not help him out? — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good. — 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

Cracks make caves collapse. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The less you speak, the more you will hear. — 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 was wrong to be too pragmatic, to judge people solely by results; it was more humane to judge by intentions. — 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

Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn