Paladin of the Lost Hour (1985)
“The grass grows over the graves, time overgrows the pain. The wind blew away the traces of those who had departed; time blows away the bloody pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their dear ones again—and will not live, for brief is human life, and not for long is any of us granted to tread the grass.”
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Mikhail Sholokhov
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And Quiet Flows the Don
And Quiet Flows the Don (1934)
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