If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIt makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that I may not break as I strike! Let me not fall from Thy hand!
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn