Ivette

“No one had taught us how to be free. We had only ever been taught how to die for freedom.”
― Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets

“They should have remembered that famous saying of Bismarck: “Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
― Margaret MacMillan, The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914

“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, Life and Fate

“Nuestro honorable sargento dominaba todas las lenguas, excepto las extranjeras.”
― Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate