Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (47)

Birth:	11th December, 1918
Death:	3rd August, 2008
Nationality:	Russian
Profession:	Novelist, Soldier, Teacher

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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Russian: Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын, pronounced ˈksandr, 11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian and Soviet novelist, dramatist, and historian. Through his often-suppressed writings, he helped to raise global awareness of the Gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system – particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970. He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1974, but returned to Russia in 1994 after the Soviet system had collapsed.

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• The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. “One word of truth outweighs the world.

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• 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.

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• Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

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• Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

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• Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

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• Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.

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• When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

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• We have arrived at an intellectual chaos.

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• Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word “modernity” if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

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• There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere.

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• The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

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• The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

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• The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever.

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• The name of “reform” simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.

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• The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.

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• The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

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• Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

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• Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

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• Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.

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• Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

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