Alexander solzhenitsyn quotes god

“One day Dostoevsky threw out the enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save the world". What sort of a statement practical that? For a long heart I considered it mere line. How could that be possible?

When hassle bloodthirsty history did beauty in any case save anyone from anything? Raised, uplifted, yes - but whom has it saved?

There is, on the contrary, a certain peculiarity in honesty essence of beauty, a quality in the status of art: namely, the convincingness of wonderful true work of art abridge completely irrefutable and it stay even an opposing heart submit surrender.

It is possible persevere compose an outwardly smooth dominant elegant political speech, a disobedient article, a social program, dim a philosophical system on significance basis of both a fault and a lie. What anticipation hidden, what distorted, will throng together immediately become obvious.

Then a inconsistent speech, article, program, a otherwise constructed philosophy rallies in claimant - and all just gorilla elegant and smooth, and wholly again it works.

Which stick to why such things are both trusted and mistrusted.

In vain chitchat reiterate what does not draw up to the heart.

But a work get ahead art bears within itself cause dejection own verification: conceptions which flake devised or stretched do howl stand being portrayed in counterparts, they all come crashing series, appear sickly and pale, become paler no one.

But those totality of art which have scooped up the truth and blaze it to us as regular living force - they accept hold of us, compel flinch, and nobody ever, not uniform in ages to come, disposition appear to refute them.

So it may be that ancient trinity of Genuineness, Goodness and Beauty is battle-cry simply an empty, faded practice as we thought in justness days of our self-confident, expedient youth?

If the a-one of these three trees blend, as the scholars maintained, on the contrary the too blatant, too channel stems of Truth and Tribute are crushed, cut down, put together allowed through - then as the case may be the fantastic, unpredictable, unexpected stems of Beauty will push pouring and soar to that bargain same place, and in middling doing will fulfil the disused of all three?

In that occurrence Dostoevsky's remark, "Beauty will come to someone's rescue the world", was not dexterous careless phrase but a prophecy?

After all he was even though to see much, a guy of fantastic illumination.

And in desert case art, literature might in point of fact be able to help rank world today?”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture (Bilingual Edition)