Where Ever There Is Sun, We Will Go

"A human being is weak, weak. In the end, that spring, even the most stubborn of us wanted forgiveness and we're ready to give up a lot for just a little bit more life. An anecdote was current among us: "What is your last word, accused?" I beg you to send me where wherever you please, just as long as it is under the Soviet government and the Sun is there! No one was threatening to deprive us of the Soviet government, of course: just the sun. No one wanted to be sent beyond the Arctic Circle, to scurvy and malnutrition."

- Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago.