The Rusanovs loved the People, their great People. They served the People and were ready to give their lives for the People. But as the years went by they found themselves less and less able to tolerate actual human beings, those obstinate creatures who were always resistant, refusing to do what they were told to and, besides, demanding something for themselves.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynSometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThere is a law in the Archipelago that those who have been treated the most harshly and who have withstood the most bravely, who are the most honest, the most courageous, the most unbending, never again come out into the world. They are never again shown to the world because they will tell tales that the human mind can barely accept. Some of your returned POW's told you that they were tortured. This means that those who have remained were tortured ever more, but did not yield an inch. These are your best people. These are your foremost heroes, who, in a solitary combat, have stood the test. And today, unfortunately, they cannot take courage from our applause. They can't hear it from their solitary cells where they may either die or remain for thirty years like Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who was seized in 1945 in the Soviet Union. He has been imprisoned for thirty years and they will not give him up.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: june-30-1973
An evil man threw tobacco in the macaque-rhesus eyes.' Oleg was struck dumb. Up to then he had been strolling along smiling with knowing condescension, but now he felt like yelling and roaring across the whole zoo, as though the tobacco had been thrown into his own eyes. 'Why?' Thrown into its eyes, just like that! 'Why? It's senseless! Why?'" - Kostoglotov
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynIf state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: inspirational
I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: materialism idolatry
Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynOwn only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday.
Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.
Понякога основно чувство при арестуването е облекчението и дори радостта, особено през периодите на арестните епидемии: когато наоколо непрекъснато прибират хора, при това такива като теб, ала все още не идват да те арестуват, все се бавят - това те кара да прималяваш, подобна мъка е по-непоносима от самия арест.
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