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
We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.
... it is a major responsibility ... of all communication for each of us to help everyone else discover the best that is in him.
This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.
He who knows how to be content will be content with little.
As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.
I insist on believing that beauty elevates human beings.
Only the first swath cut by the scythe is difficult.
To his and everybody else's way of thinking, you should build a house with your own hands before you start talking about being an engineer.
An engineer cannot participate in irrationality ...
All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.
Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors.
The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.
It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.