Author of quotes: Vasily Grossman. Page 2

Comrade Spiridonov, there Kutuzov and Lenin and heroic star give for the fact that plenty of stuff people. How much chop and our own, and theirs. What is the star - probably a kilo for two or have your daughter give that she is in this prison life has brought some new.

If she loved him, loved only his love for yourself?

Every day, every hour, from year to year, we need to fight for their right to be human, to be good and clean. And in this fight there should be neither pride nor vanity, only humility. But if in these terrible times come desperate hours, man should not fear death, should not be afraid, if he wants to remain human.

There are weak and sinful and the righteous. The difference between them is that little man, having made a good deed all his life proud of them, but the righteous, by doing good deeds, does not notice them, but years remembers his sin.

... the idea of their equality with men in weaknesses and flaws is never sincere until the end.

Russian people for a thousand years I have seen all things, and greatness, and servility, but he didn't see democracy.

After all, our humanity is always irreconcilable sectarian and violent. From Habakkuk to Lenin our humanity and freedom party, fanatical, ruthlessly bring human sacrifices to an abstract humanity.

The slow torture is the soul until years, sometimes decades, stone by stone, slowly raising up its own grave mound, in itself comes to a sense of eternal loss, is humble before the force occurred.

Time flows in a person in the Kingdom, the state, breeding in them, and that time is running out, disappears, and man, the Kingdom are... the Kingdom remained, and he took his time... man is, and the time it disappeared. Where is it? Here is a man, he breathes, he thinks, he cries and the only thing special, just associated with it the time has gone, has gone under the bridge. And he remains...
The most difficult to be a stepson of the time. No harder fate of a stepchild who does not live at the time.

Human enterprises, their meaning defined only one main goal, to win the people the right to be different, special in his own way, in private to feel, to think, to live in the world.
To win this right, or defend it, or to expand, people come together. And here comes the awful, but powerful prejudice, that in this Union in the name of race, God, the party, States the meaning of life, not a means. No, no, no! The man, in his modest peculiarities, their right to this feature - the only true and eternal meaning of the struggle for life.

All people are guilty before a mother who lost a son in the war, and vainly trying to justify to her throughout the history of mankind.

Hope is almost never related to intelligence, it is meaningless, I think it begat an instinct.

She has pressed to itself the boy with the force, which discovered and measured working in the extermination camps, - unloading the camera, they never try to separate the body to hug the loved ones.

... he realized that he was not so strong she is and that woman always a woman, even if she is endowed with God's clear and mocking mind.