“The role of past experience is of high importance, but what matters is what one has gained from experience — blind, understood connections, or insight into structural inner relatedness. What matters is how and what one recalls, hoVi he applies what is recalled, whether blindly, in a piece meal way, or in accordance with the situation.”

Source: Island

Interview With Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Ukraine (May 1994)

Epilogue, p. 227
Eat and Run (2012)

Source: The Subtle Knife

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 6
Identifying his "destroyed" personality as "Phædrus"
Context: Now I want to begin to fulfill a certain obligation by stating that there was one person, no longer here, who had something to say, and who said it, but whom no one believed or really understood. Forgotten. For reasons that will become apparent I'd prefer that he remain forgotten, but there's no choice other than to reopen his case.
I don't know his whole story. No one ever will, except Phædrus himself, and he can no longer speak. But from his writings and from what others have said and from fragments of my own recall it should be possible to piece together some kind of approximation of what he was talking about.

Source: Mission of Gravity (1954), Chapter 14

Referring to his position as 'the spare' behind elder brother William (before William had children of his own)
Source: Seward, Ingrid. William and Harry. London: Arcade, 2003. ISBN: 9781559706902.

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Act IV, scene i.
All Fools (1605)