The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The next war… may well bury Western civilization forever. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nations heart, the excision of its memory. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn