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This book has me thinking that I take freedom for granted. The book is about the daily lives of zeks (prisoners), free workers, prison guards, and Soviet officials in a sharashka (a special prison for scientists and engineers)that is located outside
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
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“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
― The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
“... skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
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