There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.
Vasily GrossmanThe longer a nation's history, the more wars, invasions, wanderings, and periods of captivity it has seen-the greater the diversity of its faces.
Vasily GrossmanHe was endowed with the extraordinary powers of endurance characteristic of madmen and simpletons.
Vasily GrossmanHuman 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.
Vasily Grossman