“We always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer
“Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”
Source: The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
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