Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward, August 1914, and The Gulag...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1918
CityKislovodsk, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn quotes about
If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone.
A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste
Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
Let your memory be your travel bag.
It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions.
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!
I am a frail vessel full of errors.
A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.
... scientists have made no clear effort to become an important, independently active force of mankind. Whole congresses at a time, they back away from the suffering of others; it is more comfortable to stay within the bounds of science.
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.
A human being is all hope and impatience.