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SEE Daily Quote: Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn


Wed 13 Feb 2019 | 10:59 AM
Nawal Sayed

By Nawal Sayed

CAIRO, Feb. 13 (SEE) - Alexander

Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and short story writer. He was

an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise

global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system.

Solzhenitsyn

was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with

which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

On Feb. 13, 1974,

Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the

Soviet Union but

returned to Russia in 1994 after the state's dissolution

Solzhenitsyn was born on Dec. 11, 1918 and died

in August, 2008. He was allowed to publish only one work in the Soviet Union,

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962), in the periodical Novy Mir.

After this he had to publish in the West, most

notably Cancer Ward (1968), August 1914 (1971), and The Gulag Archipelago

(1973).

SEE sheds some light on his most well-known quotes

as follows:

"The battle-line between good and evil

runs through the heart of every man."

"Own only what you can always carry

with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your

travel bag."

"Talent is always conscious of its own

abundance, and does not object to sharing."

"Hastiness and superficiality are the

psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease

is reflected in the press."

"A man is happy so long as he chooses

to be happy and nothing can stop him."

"A state of war only serves as an

excuse for domestic tyranny."

"Violence can only be concealed by a

lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence."

"How can you expect a man who's warm

to understand one who's cold?"

"Everything you add to the truth

subtracts from the truth."

"Not everything has a name. Some

things lead us into a realm beyond words. "