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[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Does anyone recognize this quotation? It's from Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago," and I'd like to read the original Russian.

"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

Ogromnoe spasibo.

Comments

[starodvor.livejournal.com]

[Если б это так просто!] - что где-то есть черные люди, злокозненно творящие черные дела, и надо только отличить их от остальных и уничтожить. Но линия, разделяющая добро и зло, пересекает сердце каждого человека.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

interesting. Why does he use "chyornii" instead of "zloi"?

[starodvor.livejournal.com]

In Russian connotative meaning of chorny is 'criminal, malicious'.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks- good to know.

[oryx_and_crake]

It is exactly the same in English: black can be a synonym for evil, dirty, harmful, boding ill, illegal, disgraceful, disastrous, sinful etc. (as seen e.g. in http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/black)

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

sure! I understand.

[cheytobot.livejournal.com]

don't read Sovrunitsyn, it will eat your brains.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

heh, I appreciate your concern for my brains.

[l-mel.livejournal.com]

SoVRUnitsin?
lol!

[e-tolstoon.livejournal.com]

Dont listen to anyone, Solzhenitsyn is a wonderfull autor, but "Gulag Archipelago" is "ustarel". Even Solzhenitsyn agree with this. Now he says that his straggle at least brought a lot of evil to russian people.

[nadyezhda.livejournal.com]

I've already read the entire thing, years ago. I'm not sure what you mean when you said that "his struggle at least brought a lot of evil to Russian people"- can you explain?