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Vassili Semionovitch Grossman est un écrivain soviétique né le 29 novembre 1905 à Berditchev et mort le 14 septembre 1964 à Moscou. Wikipedia  

✵ 29. novembre 1905 – 14. septembre 1964  •  Autres noms واسیلی قروسمان, Βασίλι Γκρόσμαν, 瓦西里·格罗斯曼
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Vasily Grossman Citations

“Il eut même le temps de comparer les mérites respectifs de l'une et de l'autre et de faire ce choix sans conséquence pratique que font presque toujours les hommes en regardant les femmes. Darenski, qui cherchait à mettre la main sur le commandant de l'armée, qui se demandait si celui-ci lui donnerait les chiffres dont il avait besoin, qui se demandait où il pourrait trouver à manger et à dormir, qui aurait aimé savoir si la division où il devait se rendre n'était pas trop éloignée et si la route qui y menait n'était pas trop mauvaise, Darenski, donc, eut le temps de se dire pour la forme (mais quand même pas seulement pour la forme): 'Celle-là!' Et il advint qu'il n'alla pas chez le chef de l'état-major mais resta à jouer aux cartes.”

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“L'idée surgit brutalement. Et aussitôt, sans hésiter, il comprit, il sentit que l'idée était juste. Il vit une explication neuve, extraordinairement neuve, des phénomènes nucléaires qui, jusqu'alors, semblaient inexplicables; soudain, les gouffres s'étaient changés en passerelles. Quelle simplicité, quelle clarté! Que cette idée était gracieuse et belle! Il lui semblait que ce n'était pas lui qui l'avait fait naître, mais qu'elle était montée à la surface, simple et légère, comme une fleur blanche sortie de la profondeur tranquille d'un lac, et il s'exclama de bonheur en la voyant si belle…”

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Vasily Grossman: Citations en anglais

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

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“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.”

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“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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Vasily Grossman

1960s

“In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.”

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“And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.”

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman… as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing… [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.”

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Source: Everything Flows

“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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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.”

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

Source: Life and Fate

“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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Vasily Grossman

1960s

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

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Vasily Grossman

1960s

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

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

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

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

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1960s

“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.”

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1960s

“Your book contains direct analogies between us and the Hitlerite fascists. You book incorrectly describes our people, communists. Could we have won the war with the kind of people you describe? In your book you say positive things about religion, God, Catholicism. Your book defends Trotsky. You book is full of doubts about the legitimacy of our Soviet system.”

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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?”

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Vasily Grossman livre Life and Fate

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

“You believe that we have violated the principle of freedom in your case. Yes, this is so if one understands freedom in the bourgeois sense of the term. But we have a different conception of freedom. Our understanding of freedom is not identical to the one in the capitalist world—as the right to do anything without taking into account the interests of society. Only the imperialists and millionaires need this kind of freedom.”

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1960s

“Everyone who has read your book are unanimous in their judgment. They all think it is politically harmful for us. There is no point in giving it for an evaluation to the writers Fedin, Leonov, Ehrenburg, etc. The reviewers could have made a mistake in their aesthetic judgment but they were unanimous in their political judgment, and I have no doubt that their political judgment is absolutely correct.”

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1960s

“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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1960s

“We are restoring the Leninist norms of democracy. But Leninist norms are not the same as the bourgeois norms of democracy. You know yourself: when Gorky—affected by traumatic impressions, deprivation, hunger and housing difficulties in the first years after October—abandoned his revolutionary position, Lenin did not hesitate to close down his newspaper Novaia zhizn’.”

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Vasily Grossman

1960s