Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where everybody would live in harmony, united by a single common will and faith, without secrets from one another. Andre Breton, too, dreamed of this paradise when he talked about the glass house in which he longed to live. If totalitarianism did not exploit these archetypes, which are deep inside us all and rooted deep in all religions, it could never attract so many people, especially during the early phases of its existence. Once the dream of paradise starts to turn into reality, however, here and there people begin to crop up who stand in its way, and so the rulers of paradise must build a little gulag on the side of Eden. In the course of time this gulag grows ever bigger and more perfect, while the adjoining paradise gets even smaller and poorer.
Milan KunderaTags: paradise totalitarianism utopia gulag
Els dirigents passen, l'Arxipèlag perdura.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: gulag
...you are strong only as long as you don't deprive people of everything. For a person you've taken everything from is no longer in your power. He's free all over again.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynTags: power freedom tyranny prison gulag stalinism 1968 bobynin
Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, ‘I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.’
Sveta
Tags: love russia soulmates gulag
To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.
Herta MüllerTags: death death-and-dying hunger starvation gulag will-to-live
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