are there really people on this earth who deliberately set out to do evil things? Who say to themselves, I want to hurt people, to inflict all the pa… - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Should a man,
to preserve his life, pay everything that gives life colour,
scent
and excitement? Can one accept a life of digestion,
respiration, muscular
and brain activity-and nothing
more? 'Become a walking blueprint? Is this not an
exorbitant price? Is it not a mockery? Should one pay? Seven years in the army and seven years in the camp,twice seven years twice that mythical or biblical term,then to be deprived of the ability to tell what is a man and what is a woman — is not a price extortionate?

Rejoice that you are in prison. Here you can think of your soul.