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“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
“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
“Like a bicycle, like a wheel that, once rolling, is stable only so long as it keeps moving but falls when its momentum stops, so the game between a man and woman, once begun, can exist only so long as it progresses. If the forward movement today is no more than it was yesterday, the game is over.”
― Cancer Ward
― Cancer Ward
“Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“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
Dostoyevsky's Lair: Russian Literature
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Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels
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