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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes (78 quotes)
 | “Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Harvard University address (1978) |
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| “Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Harvard University address (1978) |
| Source/Notes: The Gulag Archipelago |
| Source/Notes: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) |
| “You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power — he's free again.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Bobynin, in Ch. 17 - The First Circle (1968) |
| “Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: Nobel lecture (1970) |
| “For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.” ―Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Source/Notes: BBC Radio broadcast, Russian service, as quoted in The Listener (15 February 1979) |
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Born: December 11, 1918
Died: August 3, 2008 (aged 89)
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Author, novelist, soldier, teacher
Bio: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a writer, who, through his often-suppressed writings, helped to raise global awareness of the gulag, the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system from 1918 to 1956 particularly in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, two of his best-known works. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.
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