Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, People, Achievement

  "Cancer Ward". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

• It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes lie within our power, so that a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, Happiness, Attitude

• 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

  Love, Country, Government

  "In the First Circle". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1968.

• Nowadays we don't think much of a man's love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving animals, aren't we bound to stop loving humans too?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Love, Cat, Thinking

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1991). “Cancer Ward: A Novel”, p.333, Macmillan

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