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Explore our hand-picked selection of 380 inspiring quotes by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  • Born: December 11, 1918
  • Died: August 3, 2008
  • Occupation: Novelist
    • First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. the political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current russian position.
    Spiritual Philosophical Political
    There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.
    Time Law Oblivion
    A forest doesn't weep over one tree.
    Tree Forests
    Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
    Fundamentals Literature Significant
    The universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it.
    Society Different Universe
    There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!
    Simplicity Eternal Has Beens
    But nothing is all black in nature.
    Nature Black All Black
    In military science there is a principle more important than "forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.
    Military Mean Important
    Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.
    Art Light Views
    ... we brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
    Judgment Scales Brushes
    In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. to help me with this i improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit prisons, broke up matchsticks and used the fragments as tallies. as i approached the end of my sentences i grew more confident of my powers of memory, and began writing down and memorizing prose-dialogue at first, but then, bit by bit, whole densely written passages. my memory found room for them! it worked. but more and more of my time-in the end as much as one week every month-went into the regular repetition of all i had memorized.
    Memories Writing Lines
    Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
    Artist Two Generosity
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