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Cancer Ward

Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 9 quotes · Living, репрессии, солженицын

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“Though this life promised him nothing that the people of this great town called good and struggled to acquire: neither apartment, property, social success nor money, there were other joys, sufficient in themselves, which he had not forgotten how to value: the right to move about without waiting for an order; the right to be alone; the right to gaze at stars that were not blinded by prison-camp searchlights; the right to put the light out at night and sleep in the dark; the right to put letters in a letterbox; the right to rest on Sunday; the right to bathe in the river. Yes, there were many, many more rights like these.”

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“I have often wondered before, and now particularly I wonder: What, after all, is the highest price one should pay for life? How much should one pay, how much is too much? As they teach in schools nowadays: "The dearest thing a man has is life, he lives but once." That means cling to life at any cost. The camps helped many of us to reach the conclusion that betrayal, the ruin of good and helpless people, is too high a price. Life isn't worth it. But as for the fawning, the flattery, the lies, people in the camp differed. Some said these were an acceptable price, and perhaps they were right. But what about this price - to save one's life at the cost of surrendering everything that gives it color, flavor, and sparkle? To get a life of digestion, breathing, muscular and mental activity, and nothing more? To become a walking husk of a man - isn't that an exuberant price? It would be a mockery. Should I pay it? (chapter 22)”

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“Ведь никого ж из них Павел Николаевич не боялся, он всё смелее и открытее помогал устанавливать вину, даже два раза ходил на очные ставки, там повышал голос и изобличал. Да тогда и не считалось вовсе, что идейной непримиримости надо стыдиться! В то прекрасное честное время, в тридцать седьмом — тридцать восьмом году, заметно очищалась общественная атмосфера, так легко стало дышаться! Все лгуны, клеветники, слишком смелые любители самокритики или слишком заумные интеллигентики — исчезли, заткнулись, притаились, а люди принципиальные, устойчивые, преданные, друзья Русанова и сам он, ходили с достойно поднятой головой.”

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