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?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)
The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)
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.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)
skepticism can never provide firm ground under a mans feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)
Be glad you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)