“Gradually it was disclosed to me that 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,” he wrote in The Gulag Archipelago. “This line shifts….And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained.
亚历山大·索尔仁尼琴眼中的清晰愿景同样源自于监禁生活。他在《古拉格群岛》中写道，“我逐渐意识到善恶的分界线不在于国家、不在于阶级、也不在于政党，而在于我们每个人的内心之中。这条线不断变化…即使已不堪邪恶重负的心灵也保留着小小的善的桥头堡。而即使是在最善良的内心，仍留有未曾连根拔起的小小的恶的角落。”