Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"The task of the writer is to depict the inner world, not the outer appearance."

"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."

"Our civilization can survive the loss of everything except the truth."

"The battleline between good and evil runs through the middle of each of us."

"We should not say that one man's hour is worth less than another's."

"Tolerance of the intolerable only breeds more intolerance."

"The greatest misfortune of the wise is that the world will not hear them."

"In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State."

"Resign yourself to the unfathomable complexity of life and stop being dismayed by it."

"The human being is born to aspire, to reach beyond himself."

"I have had to learn the hard way that all suffering brings wisdom."

"There are things which we dare not contemplate, which we dare not undertake."

"The door that has been shut too long rusts in its frame."

"Between good and evil there is an abyss, and between evil and good a gulf."

"A society has already perished spiritually and is merely awaiting its physical dissolution."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence is an act of rebellion."

"When you have reformed a man, you have not shortened his life."

"To stand up for truth is nothing; at least one must stand up for it alone."

"The absolute ideals of our youth are converted by truth and experience into the relentless drive of maturity."

"We are not obligated to succeed; we are only obligated to live."

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always and to all."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's ear drums from bursting."

"Beauty is the one thing that does not lead us astray, if we're properly educated."

"The sick man is taken out of the cold outside world where he has to keep up his pretenses."

"I have nothing left to lose by telling the truth."

"A man is happy when God is in his heart."

"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it."

"Macadamize the consciousness, and morality will build a fortress around your soul."

"The price of inattention to any area of life is unconsciousness."

"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."