Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#bag #carry #countries #know #languages

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#always #conscious #does #object #own

The name of "reform" simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#heritage #name #national #process #reform

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everything #lies #making #mankind #only

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole

There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#everywhere #lot #thinkers

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. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#already #china #could #exclude #islamic

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#chaos #intellectual

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#again #away #everything #free #long

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something