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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."

"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."

"I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves."

"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

"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."

"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

"Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle."

"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."
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