Quotes by Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate

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Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and liv — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to b — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers wh — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated to be killed by a — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
I don't want you to be young and beautiful. I only want one thing. I want you to be kind-hearted - and not just towards — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The people in the hospital had been struck by her calm and the number of questions she had asked. They hadn't appreciate — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good. — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
The century of Einstein and Planck was also the century of Hitler. The Gestapo and the scientific renaissance were child — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of sociologists and — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
This kindness, this stupid kindness, is what is most truly human in a human being. It is what sets man apart, the highes — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everythi — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered. — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide my head on your — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiety for the living and — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freedom, and dying is a g — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthl — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people who were the obedi — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate
They soon lost interest in Sofya. She was just one more prisoner -with no more idea of her destination than anyone else. — Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate