“Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.”
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Famous Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes
“Still, everybody wants to eat.”
Source: Stories and Prose Poems
“Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!”
“... once you get up steam, you are carried helplessly along.”
“... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.”
“... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction!”
“... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
Source: Stories and Prose Poems
“The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.”
Source: The First Circle
“Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.”
“After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.”
Source: August 1914
“... a man can safely sacrifice a great deal as long as he clings to the essential.”
Source: The First Circle
“Let all of us who shared the prison soup meet again in better times!”
“When one is already on the edge of the grave, why not resist?”
“A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.”
“There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!”
Source: The First Circle
“Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.”
Source: The First Circle
“To preserve his life, should a man pay everything that gives it color, scent and excitement?”
Source: Cancer Ward: A Novel
“... some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.”