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“Krymov wanted to join in the conversation; he wanted to say that among the Germans Bulatov had killed there might well have been workers, revolutionaries, internationalists. It was important to remember this or they'd become mere chauvinists... But he kept quiet.”

“Krymov wanted to join in the conversation; he wanted to say that among the Germans Bulatov had killed there might well have been workers, revolutionaries, internationalists. It was important to remember this or they'd become mere chauvinists... But he kept quiet.”

“It is important to consider what a man must have suffered and endured in order to feel glad at the thought of his impending execution. It is especially important to consider this if one is inclined to moralize, to reproach the victims for their lack of resistance in conditions of which one has little conception.”

“A man cannot believe that he is about to be destroyed The optimism of people standing on the edge of the grave is astounding.”

“What saves people when their bovine melancholy, their mute fatalism yields to a piercing sense of horror - what save people then is the opium of optimism.”

“If Fascism should ever be fully assured of its final triumph, the world will choke in blood. If the day ever dawns when Fascism is without armed enemies, then its executioners will know no restraint: the greatest enemy of Fascism is man.”

“A soul can live in torment for years and years, even decades, as it slowly, stone by stone, builds a mound over a grave; as it moves towards the apprehension of eternal loss and bows down before reality.”

“When her anguish grew unbearable, the boundary between her inner world and the real world again dissolved; eternity retreated before her love.”

“The earth was vast: even the vast forest had both a beginning and an end, but the earth just stretched on for ever ... And grief was something equally vast, equally eternal.”

best book probably ever in all of literature (not qualified to say this but will say it anyways)