The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: cruelty, impact
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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: evil, good, heart, religion
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In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality
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… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: living-life
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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.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: career, corporate, vocation
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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 I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Good recommendations. I acquired the three volumes of Solzhenitsyn last year and that quote about wishing they'd ambushed the men of the organs is powerful and pertinent.
Your lady, Laura Matsue, has it perfectly and confirms my own experience as a humanistic counsellor. We, the wakened, can only point the way. Each of us has to find that inner spirit of our own making. I can only walk with them in their journey of self discovery - promotion by attraction.
very well written. You cannot wake people up who do not wish the be awakened. Sometimes on returning to my hometown I'd run across some high school classmate who had fallen into some bad habit. They'd throw a little lingo my way: no I don't Molly. They would go on their merry way. The only time those types would really approach me about hanging out like we did back in the olds days say was ALWAYS when they genuinely were trying to clean up their act or had been clean for a very long time. In general though I found my interests became broader and more global years before Covidcon struck: I have no idea how the local or regional football teams are doing and have little concern for who is doing what with whom type of gossip. The self reference is in there somewhere but many people are scared to tap into it.
The woman in the video clip has it exactly right. I learned that the hard way after the attacks of Sep 11.
The "facts" presented to us about that event were so obviously and patently absurd. This official story -- if one believes it -- stands as an indictment of the very people responsible for the greatest failure and criminal negligence of any government ever -- and hardly anyone notices that grand contradiction.
So, when the Covid® operation was being rolled out, I knew exactly what would happen -- and I knew there was no stopping it.
And here we are.
P.S. The only point with which I might disagree with the astrologist is the assertion about 70% of the population with the hive mind, the herd mentality. I'd have to say it's much, much closer to 80% -- and maybe even more than that.
There once was a goblin called Whitty,
whose advice was incredibly shitty,
The Wellcome Trust penetrates thus,
For investors who work in the City.
When I was young and in my prime I could get some kisses any old time, now I'm old and my lips are cold I can't pucker up to save my soul!
I'm sure you could... Practice makes perfect.
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 Quotes
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Want to Read
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, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: black-and-white-thinking, evil, good, good-and-evil
Like Likes: 1983
Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: cruelty, impact
Like Likes: 1074
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Like Likes: 597
Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: evil, good, heart, religion
Like Likes: 586
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: evil, injustice, justice, morality
Like Likes: 551
… What about the main thing in life, all its riddles? If you want, I'll spell it out for you right now. Do not pursue what is illusionary -property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade, and is confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life -don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn for happiness; it is, after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing. It is enough if you don't freeze in the cold and if thirst and hunger don't claw at your insides. If your back isn't broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears hear, then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart -and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. Do not hurt them or scold them, and never part from any of them in anger; after all, you simply do not know: it may be your last act before your arrest, and that will be how you are imprinted on their memory.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: living-life
Like Likes: 334
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.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Tags: career, corporate, vocation
Like Likes: 333
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 I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
Like Likes: 306
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsin, the Gulag Archipelago.
Apols for cut and paste additions.
Good recommendations. I acquired the three volumes of Solzhenitsyn last year and that quote about wishing they'd ambushed the men of the organs is powerful and pertinent.
Your lady, Laura Matsue, has it perfectly and confirms my own experience as a humanistic counsellor. We, the wakened, can only point the way. Each of us has to find that inner spirit of our own making. I can only walk with them in their journey of self discovery - promotion by attraction.
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-special-36e?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
very well written. You cannot wake people up who do not wish the be awakened. Sometimes on returning to my hometown I'd run across some high school classmate who had fallen into some bad habit. They'd throw a little lingo my way: no I don't Molly. They would go on their merry way. The only time those types would really approach me about hanging out like we did back in the olds days say was ALWAYS when they genuinely were trying to clean up their act or had been clean for a very long time. In general though I found my interests became broader and more global years before Covidcon struck: I have no idea how the local or regional football teams are doing and have little concern for who is doing what with whom type of gossip. The self reference is in there somewhere but many people are scared to tap into it.
The woman in the video clip has it exactly right. I learned that the hard way after the attacks of Sep 11.
The "facts" presented to us about that event were so obviously and patently absurd. This official story -- if one believes it -- stands as an indictment of the very people responsible for the greatest failure and criminal negligence of any government ever -- and hardly anyone notices that grand contradiction.
So, when the Covid® operation was being rolled out, I knew exactly what would happen -- and I knew there was no stopping it.
And here we are.
P.S. The only point with which I might disagree with the astrologist is the assertion about 70% of the population with the hive mind, the herd mentality. I'd have to say it's much, much closer to 80% -- and maybe even more than that.