#iv

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#literature #living #memory #nation

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal

The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#civilization #forever #may #next #war

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#experience #literature #lived #ourselves #sole

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#discovered #else #loses #someone #something

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#fighting #hopefully #i #move #move on

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#alternative #anything #conservation #else #energy

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#different #different parts #emotional #explore #hide

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#acting #actually #allows #creative #creative outlet

If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#because #behave #conceive #conversation #hard