Tolstoy and other classic writers deemed it their duty to curse prison, but Solzhenitsyn, who served time in conditions those writers could not have begun to imagine, can “say without hesitation: ‘Bless you, prison, for having been in my life!’ ”
––Gary Saul Morson, Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions ,And Why Their Answers Matter, 256
