We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIn every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynWho has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn