If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Если б это так просто! - что где-то есть черные люди, злокозненно
творящие черные дела, и надо только отличить их от остальных и уничтожить.
Но линия, разделяющая добро и зло, пересекает сердце каждого человека. И
кто' уничтожит кусок своего сердца?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG [The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation]. Vol. 1, YMCA-Press, 1973.

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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?