Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorBy refusing to accept an immutable higher power that surpasses us, we have filled the void with personal imperatives, and suddenly, our life has become eerie.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorI'm not afraid to die 'one day', I'm afraid to die today.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorPrecipitation and shallowness are the chronic diseases of the century.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorA state at war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorViolence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorThe person who is not internally prepared for violence is always weaker than the oppressor.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
View AuthorYou only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've taken everything, they're no longer in your power, they're free again.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorIt's not wrong to be beautiful; what's wrong is the obligation to be so.
Susan Sontag
View AuthorArt is seduction, not abduction.
Richard Steele
View AuthorReading is to intelligence what exercise is to the body.
Stendhal
View AuthorWith passions, one is never bored; without them, one becomes dull.
Stendhal
View AuthorThe man who has not loved passionately ignores the most beautiful half of his life.