Mourn If You Must, But Don't Stop

We Never Know Beforehand How New Posts Or New Work Will Change Us.

He Had Drawn Many A Thousand Of These Rations In Prisons And Camps, And Though He'd Never Had An Opportunity To Weight Them On Scales, And Although, Being A Man Of Timid Nature, He Knew No Way Of Standing Up For His Rights, He, Like Every Other Prisoner, Had Discovered Long Ago That Honest Weight Was Never To Be Found In The Bread-cutting. There Was Short Weight In Every Ration. The Only Point Was How Short. So Every Day You Took A Look To Soothe Your Soul - Today, Maybe, They Haven't Snitched Any.

Truth Must Be Told-and Things Must Change! If Words Are Not About Real Things And Do Not Cause Things To Happen, What Is The Good Of Them?

A Man Is Happy So Long As He Chooses To Be Happy And Nothing Can Stop Him.

When I Was In The Gulag I Would Sometimes Even Write On Stone Walls. I Used To Write On Scraps Of Paper, Then I Memorised The Contents And Destroyed The Scraps.