Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under Gods heaven. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom. – Jonathan Kozol

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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. – Lou Holtz

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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb. – Laura Hillenbrand

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The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know. – John Frusciante

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He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more. – John Bunyan

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