• The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...
    "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Part IV), 1973.