Sublime

She clutched the sleeve of your uniform. “Don’t you know how shocked I was when people said they’d seen you here? Good grief, all these corpses; aren’t you scared?” “The soldiers are the scary ones,” you said with a half-smile. “What’s frightening about the dead?”

Less realizes he has made the sound himself. For the dead live only in us.

In them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death.

We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.

Vasily Grossman

He was innocent as a new-born lamb. And look, he had so little fear of the world: the greatest, the most powerful people who exist, the most dreadful people, they were his friends: the Saxon Elector, the Crown Prince of Prussia who was later a great war hero, before whom that Austrian woman, the Empress Theresa, trembled on her throne. Zannovich di

Entonces descubrió sobre la repisa una nota casi borrada. Aquella cabina cerrada le inspiraba una gran curiosidad, y por ello Artyom prescindió de toda precaución y encendió la linterna. Con gran trabajo, logró descifrar las borrosas letras: «Enterradme de manera decente. Código 767».

On en dira du mal, plus tard, de Staline, on le traitera de tyran, on se complaira à dénoncer la terreur qu’il a fait régner, mais pour les gens de la génération d’Édouard il aura été le chef suprême des peuples de l’Union au moment le plus tragique de leur histoire, le vainqueur des nazis, l’homme capable de ce trait, digne de Plutarque : les Alle