Quote by: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The great truth for Innokenty used to be that we are given only one life. Now, with the new feeling that had ripened in him, he became aware of another law: that we are given only one conscience, too. A life laid down cannot be reclaimed, nor can a ruined conscience.


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Author Bio


  • NameAleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • DescriptionRussian writer
  • AliasesAleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
  • BornDecember 11, 1918
  • DiedAugust 3, 2008
  • CountrySoviet Union; Russia
  • ProfessionWriter; Historian; Novelist
  • WorksOne Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; Cancer Ward; The Gulag Archipelago; Two Hundred Years Together
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Medal "For The Victory Over Germany In The Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"; Order Of The Patriotic War 2nd Class; Templeton Prize