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

Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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 clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come...

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?

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

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

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.

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

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 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

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...

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,...

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...

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

A man is happy so long as he choose to be happy.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people....

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people....

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.

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

Patriotism means unqualified and unwavering love for the nation, which implies not uncritical eagerness to...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in...

I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in...

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something...

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.