49 ordspråk av Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
 A great writer is, so to speak, a second government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. |
| Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. |
| Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. |
| Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right |
| Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right |
| For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. |
| For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. |
| Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. |
| good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through. |
| Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. |
| How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold? |
| Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being. |
| I am of course confident that I will fulfill my tasks as a writer in all circumstances -- from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my lifetime. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death. But may it be that repeated lessons will finally teach us not to stop the writer's pen during his lifetime? At no time has this ennobled our history. |
| I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. |
| If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? |
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