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“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

“We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle

“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresa think that affluent Westerners often seemed poorer than the Calcutta poor, the poorest of the poor? The paradox comes to pass because the impoverishments and enrichments of a self in a world are not necessarily the same as the impoverishments and enrichments of an organism in an environment.”
― Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

“If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle