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
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.
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
If there were no executioners, there would be no executions.
In all probability an outburst of desperation in the midst of general submissiveness will always help.
When things are too clear, they are no longer interesting.
As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.
He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.
... but food eaten quickly isn't food.
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying.
Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life, only our attitude towards them....