Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not...it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home but were packed off into exile. And there was no knowing where the living was easier — here or there. The one thing he might want to ask God for was to let him go home. But they wouldn't let him go home. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The best things in life make you sweaty.
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Edgar Allan Poe
Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
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Christopher Brennan
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....
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Stephen King
More Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that...
