This too shall pass

[docwebster]

(Snagged from dirtynumbangel via MetaFilter)

A day will come when all this will pass away, the prison, the branded faces, the vile oaths, the blows, the warders, the filth, the eternal clinking of the chains - all this will pass and a new, a noble existence will begin. "I am not here for ever", he tells himself again and again, "soon I shall be there - there where there is liberty, all that I dream of, all that the suffering soul desires. Here is a heavy sleep, a nightmare. There it will be waking, beautiful and happy. Open the doors of the prison, send away the warders, strike off the chains, it will be enough. I shall find the rest for myself, in this free and beautiful universe which I did not know how to appreciate before, although I saw it."

-- From a commentary on Dostoevsky's House of the Dead, a fictionalised account of his four years of hard labour.

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[triadruid.livejournal.com]

By the way, a friend of mine wants you to read this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/saffronhare/80721.html

You inspired someone. Keep the faith.