Cait

“...she really might have been ready, there and then, in that little corner, at the finest age of their lives, to help him understand what men live by”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“Why is it that there's such rank injustice in fortune itself? There are people whose lives run smooth as silk from beginning to end, I know are, while others' are a complete muck-up. And they say a man's life depends on himself. It doesn't depend on him a bit.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“Sometimes I feel quite distinctly what is inside of me is not all of me. There's something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the universal spirit. Don't you feel that?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Cancer Ward

“But now I accept being what I am, I have learned modesty. All I can say is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims - and as far as possible one must refuse to be on the side of the pestilence.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague