“A good book is an event in my life.”
― The Red and the Black
― The Red and the Black
“Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“Perceptions which are at present insensible may grow some day: nothing is useless, and eternity provides great scope for change.”
― New Essays on Human Understanding
― New Essays on Human Understanding
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