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"The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature."
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"Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions."
"Be an artist in everything you do."
"Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart."
"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."
"This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That's why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones."
"The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble."
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."
"It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven."
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice."
"For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation."
"Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being."
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