Frases de Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Issaiévich Soljenítsin foi um romancista, dramaturgo e historiador russo cujas obras consciencializaram o mundo quanto aos gulags, sistema de campos de trabalhos forçados existente na antiga União Soviética. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1970. A sua postura crítica sobre o que considerava o esmagamento da liberdade individual pelo Estado omnipresente e totalitário implicou a expulsão do autor do país natal e a retirada da respectiva nacionalidade em 1974.

Foi um gigante da história russa e um enorme escritor. Era na juventude um marxista-leninista convicto. Mas se mostrou nacionalista e monarquista, queria restaurar a Mãe Rússia em todo o seu esplendor mítico, considerava a democracia uma péssima forma de governo; admirava Franco e Pinochet e só em Putin julgou ter encontrado um chefe à altura para governar a Rússia.

✵ 11. Dezembro 1918 – 3. Agosto 2008   •   Outros nomes Aleksandr Isaevič Solženicyn, Alexander Solženicyn, Aleksandr Isaevic Solzhenitsyn
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Frases famosas

“Uma fome que apareceu algures sem seca e sem guerra.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Arquipélago de Gulag; sobre Holodomor.

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“Mas a linha que separa o bem do mal, cruza o coração de cada ser humano. E quem pode destruir um pedaço de seu coração?”

Aber der Strich, der das Gute vom Bösen trennt, durchkreuzt das Herz eines jeden Menschen. Und wer mag von seinem Herzen ein Stück vernichten?
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Der Archipel Gulag (O Arquipélago Gulag), Scherz Verlag, Berna, 1974, p. 167

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: Frases em inglês

“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn livro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fonte: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

“In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion.”

Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)
Contexto: In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.
Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

“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.”

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.
Variant translation, as quoted in TIME (25 February 1974).
Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: 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

“Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

“Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Not everything assumes a name. Some things lead beyond words. Art inflames even a frozen, darkened soul to a high spiritual experience. Through art we are sometimes visited — dimly, briefly — by revelations such as cannot be produced by rational thinking.
Like that little looking-glass from the fairy-tales: look into it and you will see — not yourself — but for one second, the Inaccessible, whither no man can ride, no man fly. And only the soul gives a groan...

“Of course, one cannot declare that only my faith is correct and all other faiths are not. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.”

Interview with Joseph Pearce, Sr. (2003)
Contexto: Of course, one cannot declare that only my faith is correct and all other faiths are not. Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God. One must not have any negative attitude to any religion but nonetheless the depth of understanding God and the depth of applying God's commandments is different in different religions. In this sense we have to admit that Protestantism has brought everything down only to faith.
Calvinism says that nothing depends on man, that faith is already predetermined. Also in its sharp protest against Catholicism, Protestantism rushed to discard together with ritual all the mysterious, the mythical and mystical aspects of the Faith. In that sense it has impoverished religion.

“We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters; boldly we direct it, we renew, reform and manifest it; we sell it for money, use it to please those in power; turn to it at one moment for amusement — right down to popular songs and night-clubs, and at another — grabbing the nearest weapon, cork or cudgel — for the passing needs of politics and for narrow-minded social ends. But art is not defiled by our efforts, neither does it thereby depart from its true nature, but on each occasion and in each application it gives to us a part of its secret inner light.

“When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn livro One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Fonte: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“It is in the nature of the human being to seek afor his actions.”

Fonte: The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation V-VII

“If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn livro The First Circle

Fonte: The First Circle

“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn livro The First Circle

Fonte: The First Circle

“Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art.”

Nobel lecture (1970)
Contexto: Archeologists have not discovered stages of human existence so early that they were without art. Right back in the early morning twilights of mankind we received it from Hands which we were too slow to discern. And we were too slow to ask: FOR WHAT PURPOSE have we been given this gift? What are we to do with it?
And they were mistaken, and will always be mistaken, who prophesy that art will disintegrate, that it will outlive its forms and die. It is we who shall die — art will remain. And shall we comprehend, even on the day of our destruction, all its facets and all its possibilities?

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