Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
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Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.Alexander Solzhenitsyn
If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Forget the outside world. Life has different laws in here. This is Campland, an invisible country. It's not in the geography books, or the psychology books or the history books. This is the famous country where ninety-nine men weep while one laughs.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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