“Suffering makes us human. A person without suffering is just grass.”

—  Vasil Bykaŭ

Васіль Быкаў. Трэцяя ракета http://rv-blr.com/literature/charter/11223 // rv-blr.com (in Belarusian)

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Belarusian writer 1924–2003

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