“A strong man never loses his head in defeat or despondency.”
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Famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
“And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.”
“... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.”
Source: August 1914
“A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.”
“If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.”
“To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
“There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living.”
Source: The First Circle
“Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.”
“No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.”
Source: The First Circle
“A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.”
“Any fool can bomb a train, but just try sorting out the mess.”
Source: Stories and Prose Poems
“Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.”
Source: The First Circle
“A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel