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“Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.”
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“It is unthinkable in the twentieth century to fail to distinguish between what constitutes an abominable atrocity that must be prosecuted and what constitutes that "past" which "ought not to be stirred up.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
“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
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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