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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
“Life isn't so bad here. All right—it's a special camp. But why does wearing numbers bother you? They weigh nothing, number patches.”
Tagged:
Prison
“It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.”
Tagged:
Capitalism
“Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.”
Tagged:
Gender war
“Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.”
Tagged:
Power
“I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances—from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer’s pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history.”
Tagged:
Writing
“Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers—such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a façade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.”
Tagged:
Literature
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