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And now the rule of your life is this: Do not rejoice when you have found, do not weep when you have lost.
the meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but… in the development of the soul.
the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains … an unuprooted small corner of evil.
In a situation of fear and betrayal over many years people survive unharmed only in a superficial, bodily sense. And inside … they become
Lenin’s words: “An oppressed class which did not aspire to possess arms and learn how to handle them would deserve only to be treated as slaves.”
“Enemies,” they say, and all is explained. In the Middle Ages it was “devils.”)
