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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 prisonwhat'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