“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

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