Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and its totalitarianism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, in the periodical Novy Mir. After this he had to publish in the West, most notably Cancer Ward, August 1914, and The Gulag...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 December 1918
CityKislovodsk, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
The heart senses who is friend and who is no friend.
Once the fight is on-strike quickly and often.
Which of us can control his feelings?
People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.
In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything.
A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.
What a force is laughter.
Justness exists, even if few people exist who feel it.
... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.
Only a magician can fix a head on a body, but any fool can lop it off.
It takes a fool to rush off to war!