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

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

Mourn if you must, but don't stop fighting.

The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it

A hard life improves the vision.

To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.