Author of quotes: Daniil Aleksandrovich Granin

I have no recipes. The only thing I can say is that we have to exist, feeling the happiness of life. That today is the happiest day of your life.

Conscience is like a small representation of God.

Everyone, sure, for something designed. It can become a much greater person than he is. The man himself is a miracle, a treasure of nature.

It often turns out that saved those who saved others stood in line, got firewood, cared, donated a crust of bread, a piece of sugar... Not always, but often. Compassion and mercy is a typical feeling besieged life. Of course, the rescue died, but I was impressed how they helped the soul to rastselovalis. As people who remained in the city and was not involved in the hostilities, were able to remain human beings. When we wrote "Blockade book", we wondered - as so, after all the Germans knew about what was happening in the city, from defectors, from intelligence. They knew about this nightmare, the horrors not only of hunger, from all that has happened. But they continued to wait. Waited 900 days. After fighting with soldiers - Yes, war is soldiers ' business. But here hunger is fought alongside soldiers. I, being at the forefront, could not forgive the Germans for this. I hated the Germans not only as opponents, the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, but also how those who are against all the laws of military honor, military dignity, traditions officers killed people. I understood that war is always dirty, blood - any war... Our army suffered huge losses - up to a third of the personnel. <...> You know, there is sacred space. When a man returns to compassion and spirituality. Ultimately always triumphs is not power, but justice and truth. And it is a miracle of victory, love of life, to human...

I started with the first war days. Enlisted in the militia as a volunteer. Why? Today I don't even know why. Perhaps it was a boyish thirst for romance: "of course without me there will be war? It is necessary to participate." But the next few days of the war sobered me, as with many of my friends. Brutally sobered. We were bombed, when our train arrived at the front line. And since then we experienced one defeat after another. Fled, retreated, escaped again. And finally, somewhere in the middle of September [1941], my regiment passed the town of Pushkin. We had walked the boundaries of the city [of Leningrad]. The front collapsed and the blockade began. All ties of a huge city, metropolis was cut off from the mainland. And began that the blockade, which lasted 900 days. The blockade was unexpected as this whole war. There were no reserves nor fuel, nor food. <...> Hitler ordered the city not to go, to avoid losses in street fighting, where tanks could not participate. Eighteenth army von Leeb fought off all our attempts to break the blockade. German troops, in fact, very comfortably, without much trouble was waiting for the coming famine and cold would force the city to capitulate. In fact, the war was not a war, a war by the enemy was waiting, quite comfortable waiting, of surrender. I tell you now about these details that are associated with my personal soldiers ' experience. And generally speaking not as a writer, not as a witness, I act more like a soldier, a participant in those events about which they know little.

A compliment from a really smart man covers thousands of insults from the vulgar.

Putin has always been so - not especially humane. He also pushes away the love, it's too suspicious, and cruel, with beliefs, of course, with its view of the world... I know he was always like that - not especially humane, it's the principle. However, in the last conversation he may be thawed out... and not convinced.

I can tell you that the propaganda of homosexuality among minors is the right ban. Not that correct, I don't know what is right what is wrong, if so to say, but I support such a law.

Education is what is left when everything learnt by heart is forgotten.

Silence is the most convenient form of lying. It is able to get along with a conscience, it leaves a wicked right to keep their own opinions and, perhaps, when to say it.

The biggest loss for a human being - a miserable childhood.

Lack of understanding of danger is not yet the courage.

The most precious thing a man can have, is life. But if you look closely in this very life in more detail, we can say that the most expensive is the Time, because life consists of Time consists of hours and minutes.

If the book is not worth reading twice, it is not worth reading.