What did Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn mean by: There are a lot of clear thinkers everywhere. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia Copy
+ A poet cannot be a Party member … without paying the price. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Party, Poet, Poetry, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs! Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Affair, Environmental, Planets, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 11, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Change, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ For a country to have a great writer is to have another government. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Country, Government, Great Writers, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ A genius doesn’t adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant’s taste Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Genius, Taste, Tyrants, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ If there were no executioners, there would be no executions. Feraz Zeid, November 7, 2023December 26, 2023, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Death, Execution, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ … that maxim of Descartes: “Question everything!” Question everything! Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Doubt, Maxims, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
+ Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Death, Moral, Preparation, 0 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Novelist · Russia
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France