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Quotes from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1918–2008 Russia

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A man should build a house with his own hands before he calls himself an engineer.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

A man with two trades to his credit can easily learn another ten.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Here, lads, we live by the law of the taiga. But even here people manage to live. D’you know who are the ones the camps finish off? Those who lick other men’s left-overs, those who set store by the doctors, and those who peach on their mates.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

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

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.