It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
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Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.
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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.
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It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.
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