Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and…

Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth…

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no…

The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever…

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny…

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That…

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience… from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the…

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art…

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people…

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion…

It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the…

I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less…

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you…

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes…

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man…