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Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- If decade after decade the truth cannot be told, each person's mind begins to roam irretrievably. One's fellow countrymen become harder to understand than Martians.Cancer Ward (1968)
- You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power — he's free again.The First Circle (1968) ch. 17
- 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.The First Circle (1968) ch. 57, tr. M. Guybon
- The Gulag archipelago.title of book (1973–5)
- 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?The Gulag Archipelago (1973–5)
- Work was like a stick. It had two ends. When you worked for the knowing you gave them quality; when you worked for a fool you simply gave him eye-wash.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
- How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
- The thoughts of a prisoner—they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things.One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
- In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.1974 interview, in The Oak and the Calf (1975)
- After the suffering of decades of violence and oppression, the human soul longs for higher things, warmer and purer than those offered by today's mass living habits, introduced as by a calling card by the revolting invasion of commercial advertising, by TV stupor and by intolerable music.speech in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 8 June 1978
- 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 being crushed by the rubble.in Komsomolskaya Pravda 18 September 1990
