Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes about Time

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Literature cannot develop between the categories permitted—not permitted—this you can and that you can't. Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral

Literature cannot develop between the categories "permitted"—"not permitted"—"this you can and that you can't." Literature that is not the air of its contemporary society, that dares not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers, such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it is only a facade. Such literature loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as waste paper instead of being read. -Letter to the Fourth National Congress of Soviet Writers

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, Air, Names

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Time, Blow, Dust

"Expulsion". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers' Union (November 12, 1969) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.