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This book has me thinking that I take freedom for granted. The book is about the daily lives of zeks (prisoners), free workers, prison guards, and Soviet officials in a sharashka (a special prison for scientists and engineers)that is located outside
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“... skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I write to discover what I know.”
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“My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth.”
― The First Circle
― The First Circle
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
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