Quotes by : Vasily Grossman

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

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that....

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated....

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil....

There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah....

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he....

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

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

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....