Vasily Grossman: Quotes about life

Vasily Grossman was Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an engineer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed - while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.”

Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.”

Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“You know what enormous harm we have been dealt by the publication of Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. Everybody who has read your book, everybody who has seen the reviews are convinced that the potential harm from your “Life and Fate” would be far more dangerous than that of Doctor Zhivago.”

Vasily Grossman

1960s

“The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?”

Vasily Grossman book Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate (1959), Chapter 2, page 5