It is enough if you don’t freeze in the cold, and if thirst and hunger don’t claw at your insides, if your back isn’t broken, if your feet can walk, if both arms can bend, if both eyes can see, if both ears can hear. Then whom should you envy? And why? Our envy of others devours us most of all. Rub your eyes and purify your heart and prize above all else in the world those who love you and who wish you well. After all, it might be your last act.
—Solzhenitsyn, A., “The Gulag Archipelago,” Harper & Row
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