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“A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.”
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“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
― The Lower Depths and Other Plays
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.”
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“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.”
― Cancer Ward
― Cancer Ward
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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