Monday, September 6, 2021

#186: “The Line Dividing Good and Evil”

“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?”*

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*Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.. The Gulag Archipelago (p. 91). Harper Perennial. Kindle Edition.

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008)[6][7] ;was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn