“The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Time worked unhurriedly, conscientiously. First the man was expelled from life, to reside instead in people's memories. Then he lost his right… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“At the same time there was the good of the poor and the good of the rich. And the good of the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“When you were a child, you used to run to me for protection. Now, in moments of weakness, I want to hide… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery, these coarse,… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“No one could understand; nor could she explain it herself. This senseless kindness is condemned in the fable about the pilgrim who… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“He was telling her here, in this cellar, as he kissed her feet, he had understood love for the first time -… — 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
