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• Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling…
• Man and fascism cannot co-exist. If fascism conquers, man will cease to exist and there will remain only man-like creatures that have…
• There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that will never…
• Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.
• There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged…
• Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other…
• There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as…
• The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have…
• Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
• Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be…
• And in this silence of the dumb and these speeches of the blind, in this medly of people bound together by the…
• I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

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