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“Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle

“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”
― Candle in the Wind
― Candle in the Wind

“Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.”
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“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

“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
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