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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.


Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The one and only substitute for experience which we have not ourselves had is art, literature
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN good literature substitutes for an experience which we have not oursleves lived through.
ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. ...
ERIC HOFFER In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only ...
OSCAR WILDE Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike pain...
JEAN-LUC GODARD We've been looking for 30 years and we have not found an acceptable substitute for PFOA.
DAVID BOOTHE We've been looking for 30 years, and we have not found an acceptable substitute for PFOA.
DAVID BOOTHE We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and ...
T.S. ELIOT Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patie...
C.S. LEWIS The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
RAYMOND DUNCAN Time is an important ingredient for growth, but sometimes we pass through time and get better; at ot...
HENRY CLOUD The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error o...
OSCAR WILDE The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error o...
LYMAN BRYSON If Freud turns to literature to describe traumatic experience, it is because literature, like psycho...
CATHY CARUTH Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of...
LELAND RYKEN The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
ANDRE GIDE Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
HAVELOCK ELLIS Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons ha...
ARISTOTLE Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
TED SHAWN I have asked again and again for more police, we have asked for an extra 3,000 which we have had to ...
KLAUS REINHARDT Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
LINDSAY ANDERSON When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for G...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ There's no substitute for experience
PROVERB Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
W. R. [WILLIAM RALPH] INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art.
DEAN INGE Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.
MARY DALY Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
MARY DALY The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.
JOSEPH ROUX Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse
JOSEPH ROUX I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature e...
ANTHONY MARRA Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
WILLIAM RALPH INGE Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
W. R. INGE Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.
REINALDO ARENAS Solzhenitsyn.
DAVID BALDACCI The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good,...
ROLAND BARTHES Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be ...
LAKE BELL It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learn...
ANDREI TARKOVSKY Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
MARCEL PROUST Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees
MARCEL PROUST Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an acti...
FRéDéRIC BASTIAT You can't take one event and substitute it for an entire winter's worth of snow, which we didn't get...
ED POLASKO I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
MARCEL PROUST I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furn...
JOHN O'DONOHUE Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the fe...
JEAN PIAGET Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A boo...
JORGE LUIS BORGES All the experience you have lived through, your worries and life situations was indirectly preparing...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it...
ELIZABETH DREW The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it
ELIZABETH DREW The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of i...
ELIZABETH DREW How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount o...
ISAAC ASIMOV Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
NOBU MATSUHISA The experience of the gangster as an experience of art is universal to Americans. There is almost no...
ROBERT WARSHOW Alexander is an incredibly gifted young player, and we are excited to have him join our club.
GEORGE MCPHEE The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.
KIM JONG IL For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of cour...
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which...
ALEXANDER ALEKHINE The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands a...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. -Alexander Sm...
ALEXANDER SMITH Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, wh...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that ex...
SALMAN RUSHDIE You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense o...
MITCH ALBOM Going through what we have gone through is very helpful for us. It's incredible. We always believe i...
EMILY ZAPLATOSCH Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and a...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Jesus is our mouth, through which we speak to the Father; He is our eye, through which we see the Fa...
ST. AMBROSE Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead fo...
GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a...
VIGGO MORTENSEN For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always ...
CRAIG DETWEILER In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON Indifference is an excellent substitute for patience.
MASON COOLEY Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have t...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on va...
LAURIE ANDERSON In this world we do not have to become the doer, we have to become nimit [an instrument, one of the ...
DADA BHAGWAN Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.
JULES RENARD Pain and evil confront us as a surd. Suffering, our own and that of others, is an experience through...
KALLISTOS WARE Through our belly buttons, not only can we connect with ourselves, but we also gain the wisdom to se...
ILCHI LEE Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ...
WOLE SOYINKA You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external s...
COUNT LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOI OR TOLSTOY We all need hope. As souls, we journey in physical bodies, traversing a life that is dually lived. W...
SUSAN BARBARA APOLLON While we all have our own perception about what is going on that is filtered through our experience,...
MICHAEL RAMIREZ When India was explored and the wonderful riches of Indian theological literature found that dispell...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which...
JORGE M. PEREZ [Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a m...
MICHAEL POLLAN You have to be vulnerable and open to experience the new, as nothing else gonna substitute it..
JAYESH VARMA Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death
RICHARD CRASHAW Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death
RICHARD CRASHAW Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i...
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN So let the reader who expects this book to be a political exposé slam its covers shut right now. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The sole substitute for an experience we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his p...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN (Please forgive us, reader. We have once more gone astray with this rightist opportunism—this conc...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Those who floated in the ark were weightless and had weightless thoughts. They were neither hungry n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN At no time have governments been moralists. They never imprisoned people and executed them for ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-K...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The name of 'reform' simply covers what is latently a process of the theft of the national h...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Where an open war is impossible, oppression can continue quietly behind the scenes. Terrorism. Guerr...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN By apeculiar coincidence, the very day when I was giving my address in Washington, ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You can build the Empire State Building. Train the Prussian army. Elevate the hierarchy of a totalit...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN I think, ladies and gentlemen, and I particularly address those of you who have a socialist outlook,...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That’s all very well, but how many family doctors would you need? It simply doesn’t fit into the...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Now for the first time you were about to see people who were not your enemies. Now for the first tim...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Constant love despite almost impossible anti-clamix towards this place of the rising sun...
ALEXANDER On the way to your success and realisation of the dreams you have to do one tiny thing - start do it...
ALEXANDER As more you're busy and overwhelmed as more free and leisure time you have.
ALEXANDER Occasionally, I don't invent something and I don't lie, sometimes there're moments when I just don't...
ALEXANDER I just believe that someday I'll meet a person who'd describe me from the side as thoroughly and elo...
ALEXANDER Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless r...
ALEXANDER Live with the current day, otherwise someday you'll wake up and realise that all remarkable and gorg...
ALEXANDER Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that...
ALEXANDER As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
ALEXANDER Facing the obstacle don't fall in depression, just reverse the problem and take a glance at it at an...
ALEXANDER Everything what you do has sense. If you don't like the world around you can draw your own, compose ...
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