"It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and dissident whose works exposed the Soviet forced-labor camp system. His major books include One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970.