black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Related Topics

Behind Blow Clock Curtain Dear Dist heavy Limit Open Throw Time Watch

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Communism Dead Dog Hastiness Living Many People Still
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Clock Come Communism Concrete Crash Freedom Instead Stop Strunk
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Abundance Conscience Justice Object Share
Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word ‘modernity’ if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Already Country Excludem Use Modernity Refer Today West World
Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Anyone Inexorbly Method Principle Proclaim Violence
A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Choose Happy Long Man Nothing So Stop
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Conquer Himself Lose Man Process Soul
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Concealed Lie Maintain Violence
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God’s heaven.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Above Apprentice Artist Assume Force God Heaven Him Realize Small Supreme Under Work
Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Become Literature Living Memory Nation
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation’s heart, the excision of its memory.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Force Freedom Interfere Intrusion Literature Nation Short
It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Defend Human Much Obligation Right Time West
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Country Government Great Minor Second Writer
The name of ‘reform’ simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national heritage.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Cover Heritage Latently Name National Process Reform Simply
How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Cold Expect Man One Understand Warm
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN

Art Experience Literature Ourselves Sole Substitute Through

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes