Author of quotes: Vasily Grossman. Page 1

National consciousness is manifested as powerful and beautiful force in the days of national calamities. The people's national consciousness at such a time is fine, because it's humane, not because it is national. It is the human dignity, human commitment to freedom, human faith in goodness, manifested in the form of national consciousness.

The revolutionary goal was released in the name of morality from morality, it justifies the name of the future today's Pharisees, informers, hypocrites, she explained why the person in the name of happiness of the people should push into the pit innocent. This force the name of the revolution allowed to turn away from the children whose parents were in the camp. She explained why the revolution wants a wife, not to inform on her innocent husband had to tear away from children and put on ten years in a concentration camp.

The woman, like a dog, goes after the man.

The sacred right of every nation to have its heroes, saints and scoundrels.

Fascism and people can't coexist. When fascism wins, ceases to exist people are only internally transformed humanoid creatures. But when you're winning man, endowed with freedom, reason and kindness, fascism killed and reconciled once again become a people.

- I do not know, 'said she,' there's this female character is supposedly malleable, supposedly sacrificial. Such a woman will not say: "I sleep with a man because I want this," and she says: "it Is my duty, I feel sorry for him, I sacrificed myself". These women sleep, converge, diverge because they want them to, but they say differently: "It was a need commanded duty, conscience, I refused, I donated". And does she have donated, did what they wanted, and vile thing that these ladies genuinely do believe in his sacrifice. I can't stand it! And you know why? I often think that I am from this breed.

... love is like coal, red-hot, it burns, and when cold, stain...

You know, by the way, the difference between a good and a bad person? A good man of meanness makes reluctantly.

Luck drives people in different ways - some it leads to sullen submission, conciliation, and other religious mysticism, others give up and fall, angry and jealous of the fourth, fifth kowtow and grovel, the sixers become insecure, timid seventh flock to a hysterical project-mongering, eighth nourishes a barren contempt, the ninth manic ambition, tenth entering the path of villainy and robbery.

Sometimes that friend is the silent instance, it can help a person communicates with himself, finds joy in yourself, in your thoughts, which sound, intelligible, visible due to the reflection in the resonating soul of the other. Friendship of the mind, contemplative, philosophical, usually requires people minds, but this similarity may not be comprehensive. Sometimes friendships are evident in the dispute, in the dissimilarity of the friends. If friends are similar in everything, if they mutually reflect each other, the dispute with one another have an argument with himself. Each one who justifies your weaknesses, shortcomings and even vices, who argues your case, talent, merit. Friend who, loving, exposes your weaknesses, shortcomings and vices. And here friendship is based on similarity, as manifested in the differences, the contradictions, methodtwo. And here is a man in friendship selfishly seeks to obtain from another what he himself is not. And here is a man in friendship generously seeks to transfer what he owns. The desire for friendship inherent in the nature of man, and one who does not know how to be friends with people, make friends with animals - dogs, horses, cats, mice, spiders. Absolutely powerful being has no need of friendship, apparently, this creature could only be God. True friendship is independent of whether your friend is on the throne or deposed from the throne, was in prison, true friendship addressed to the inner qualities of the soul and indifferent to fame, external power.

It is such a bad manner some people: without permission to get into someone else's soul and publicly explain all that can be seen in another soul.

One longing, crushes, and the second leans, and the third choking, breathing does not. And we have a special that is not choking, no pressure, no leans, and inside breaks man, this is how breaks monsters deep pressure of the ocean.

There is right greater than the right to send, without hesitation, to the death, the right to think, sending death.

The universe that existed in a person, ceased to be. This universe is amazing like that, the only thing that exists apart from people. This universe is amazingly resembled the one that continues to affect millions of live animals. But this universe is particularly striking were those that had in it something that is different from the noise of its ocean, the smell of its flowers, the rustle of leaves, the hues of its granite, the sadness of its autumn fields from each of those that exist in humans, and from that which is eternal exists outside of people. In its originality, its uniqueness is the soul the life of the individual - freedom. Reflection of the Universe in human consciousness is the basis of human power, but happiness, freedom, a higher sense of life is only when man exists as the world, never by anyone not repeatable at infinite time.