# The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1  ## Metadata - Author: [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] - Full Title: The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - Category: #books ## Highlights - Don’t dig up the past! Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye.” But the proverb goes on to say: “Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.” ([Location 159](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08CXVFWZZ&location=159)) - That’s what arrest is: it’s a blinding flash and a blow which shifts the present instantly into the past and the impossible into omnipotent actuality. ([Location 205](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08CXVFWZZ&location=205))