"The First Circle" Quotes
A gripping tale of life in a Soviet labor camp where inmates struggle to maintain their humanity.
fiction | 580 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
In the end, it is the fear of death that makes us tremble.
The only way to live in such a world is to stay drunk on the sorrow of it.
A man's life is like a drop of dew on a petal.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Guilt is a gift that keeps on giving.
The law is like a cobweb; it entangles the weak, but is easily broken by the strong.
Man is not born for happiness, but for the struggle to attain it.
A man is not what he thinks he is, but what he thinks, he is.
Men who have no secrets from each other never want for subjects of conversation.
We do not chase a ball because it is round, but because it is a ball.
