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

Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Topics: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why...

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

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

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

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

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

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and...

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to...

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

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

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes......

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

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

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

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

Happiness doesn't depend on the actual number of blessings we manage to scratch from life,...

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity....

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long...

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art,...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere...

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere...

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and...

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and...

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is...

All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is...