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

Quote by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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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.

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....

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.

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 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

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

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,...

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?

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...

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 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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the...

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....