Vasily Grossman Short Quotes

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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.

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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.

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I have written only what I have thought through, felt through and suffered through.

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There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

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At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.

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It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.

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He was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.

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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.

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National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.

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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.

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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 towards cats and dogs.

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We would only multiply the number of victims. Our duty is to strengthen the state and defend the people, why, then, should we publish your book.

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The longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.

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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 to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

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There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil - anything so as not to be suspected of disagreeing with whoever is in power.

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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.

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The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

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I have not read your novel but I have carefully read the reviews of your manuscript, responses to it, which contain many excerpts from your novel. Look how many quotes from them I have written down.

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