Submissiveness to fate, the total abdication of your own will in the shaping of your life, the recognition that it was impossible to guess the best and the worst ahead of time but that it was easy to take a step you would reproach yourself for-all this freed the prisoner from any bondage, made him calmer, and even ennobled him. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is a law of time, a law of oblivion: glory to the dead; life to the living. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with lying. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my life started to get shaken up. I realized I wanted to grow more and that anything that wasn't working in my life, I could fix it. I feel like I came into my womanhood. And that was when I got married.
