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Quotation from The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“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?”
The Gulag Archipelago, Vol. 1, Part I, ch. 4 (The Bluecaps), trans. Thomas P. Whitney
Reflecting that he might himself have become an interrogator, Solzhenitsyn rejects the comfortable idea that evil people could simply be separated from the rest of us.
Citation: "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, Vol. 1, Part I, ch. 4 (The Bluecaps), trans. Thomas P. Whitney. (id solzhenitsyn-the-gulag-archipelago-q1)
Portrait: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1974crop, Bert Verhoeff for Anefo, CC0.
