It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance of their effects. All the more unpredictable and surprising to us will be the course of future events.


Autobiographical sketch (1970), at Nobelprize.org

Nobel Prize Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Biographical

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance...

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance...

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance...

It is almost always impossible to evaluate at the time events which you have already experienced, and to understand their meaning with the guidance...