ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN

“One Word of Truth…”

His Nobel Speech 1970

“It is useless to assert what one’s heart does not believe .”

“A work of art carries its proof in itself. Artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the image-test; all such concepts crumble, they are revealed as puny and colourless, they convince nobody. But words which have drawn on truth and presented it to us in live, concentrated form, grip us and communicate themselves to us compellingly – and nobody, even centuries later, will ever be able to refute them.”