The Real Dividing Line

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, reflecting on his experience as witness to and victim of the forced labor of the Soviet concentration camps during the Lenin/Stalin era:

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, 1918–1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (3 vols.; New York: Harper & Row, 1974–1978), 1:168