What did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mean by: Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia Copy
+ If you live in a graveyard, you can’t weep for everyone. Author, August 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Grief, Limitations, Perspective, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ … but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Destruction, Justice, Outrage, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ The one who doesn’t pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Equity, Hard Work, Responsibility, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Justification, Sacrifice, Selfishness, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ … We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arrogance, Close-mindedness, Ignorance, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ Let your memory be your travel bag. Author, July 4, 2023January 2, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Experience, Memory, Travel, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ … mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Destruction, Misunderstanding, Threat, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ Call no day happy ’til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead. Author, January 5, 2024January 6, 2025, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Happiness, Mortality, Uncertainty, 0 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
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Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. Franz Werfel Novelist · Austria