3 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Quotes on Memory

Alexander Solzhenitsyn quotes on memory

10. For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

27. Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against 'freedom of print', it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another

37. I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.