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A work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one. But those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A work of art bears within itself its own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand being portrayed in images, they all come crashing down, appear sickly and pale, convince no one. But those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them." in the context of "" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

About Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn Алекса́ндр Иса́евич Солжени́цын (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Russian philosopher, novelist, dramatist and historian. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1974, returning to Russia in 1994.