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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
Birthday: | December 11, 1918 |
Death: | August 3, 2008 |
Educated At: | Southern Federal University |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | Russia, Statelessness, Soviet Union, Union De Republicas Socialistas Sovieticas |
Occupations: | Historian, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer |
Religion: | Russian Orthodox Church |
Spouse: | Natalia Solzhenitsyna |
Total quotes: 74

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
BirthnameBirthday: December 11, 1918
Death: August 3, 2008
Educated At: Southern Federal University
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: Russia, Statelessness, Soviet Union, Union De Republicas Socialistas Sovieticas
Occupations: Historian, Playwright, Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer
Religion: Russian Orthodox Church
Spouse: Natalia Solzhenitsyna
Total quotes: 74
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent—dimly, briefly—revelations unattainable by reason.”
Tagged:
Art
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
Tagged:
Soul
“Because, Alyoshka, prayers are like petitions —either they don't get through at all, or else it's 'complaint rejected.'”
Tagged:
Bureaucracy, prayer
“Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the process loses his soul.”
Tagged:
Soul
“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.”
Tagged:
Socialism
“Listen to me, he said, do you really think women are the flower of life? You know, you can get fed up with them after a while … All they do is stop you achieving anything serious.”
Tagged:
Misogyny
“Communism is as crude an attempt to explain society and the individual as if a surgeon were to perform his delicate operations with a meat ax.”
Tagged:
Communism
“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you—you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”
Tagged:
History
“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
Tagged:
Lies
“You don't need brains to carry a handbarrow. That's why the foreman had put these ex-bosses on the job.”
Tagged:
Work, Authoritarian Regimes
“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”
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