Life and Fate
Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
- 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?
- Chapter 2, page 5
- National Socialism had created a new type of political criminals: criminals who had not committed a crime.
- Chapter 2, page 5