Quotes by : Vasily Grossman

When a person dies, they cross over from the realm of freedom to the realm of slavery. Life is freedom,....

The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm....

And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiety....

A wife! No one else could love a man who had been trampled on by iron feet. She would wash his feet after....

Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of....

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what....

To Polyakov it was as though a fierce wind from downstream was sweeping up the Volga. Several times he....

My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the....

And it was not merely tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, but hundreds of millions of people....

Both his voice and eyes had the burning cold of alcohol. His strength no longer lay in his military experience....