The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freedom, and dying is a… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Life was terrible. It was as though they could understand, as though they could read in one another’s eyes, that the power which had… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“She's got legs like a stork, no arse worth speaking of, and great cow-like eyes. call that a woman?' 'You just like big tits',… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
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… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the gas chamber.… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Another fact that allowed Fascism to gain power over men was their blindness. A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed.… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated to be killed by another, it would… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the direct opposite of necessity; freedom is necessity overcome.” — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered. — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The travelers emerged into a spacious square. In the middle of this square were several dozen people on a wooden bandstand like in a… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
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