Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quote

Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives have a mystical sense, but not everyone reads it right; more often than not it is given to us in cryptic form, and when we fail to decipher it we despair because our lives seem meaningless… the secret of a great life is often a man's success in deciphering the mysterious symbols vouchsafed to him, understanding them, and so learning to walk in the true path.


The Oak and the Calf (1975)


Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives...

Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives...

Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives...

Ivanov came to quite the same conclusion, though life supplied him with quite different material to think about. He puts it like this: many lives...