Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Read Quote
