Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life #truth #writing #death

The earlier, the more fun. Why put it off? It’s the atomic age! ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#modernism #sex #age

Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#liberty #freedom

Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end? ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#courage

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#choose #his #inexorably #lying #method

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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#clearly #conscience #humanity #justice #own

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communism #design #difficult #followed #out

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#condensed #experience #generation #his way #incontrovertible

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#earth #endlessly #every #exists #face

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#chooses #happy #him #long #man