At War A Russian Man

The Divine Impeccability Of The Immortal [soviet] State Turned Out Not Only To Have Suppressed Individual Human Beings But Also To Have Defended Them, To Have Comforted Them In Their Weakness, To Have Justified Their Insignificance. The State Had Taken On Its Own Shoulders The Entire Weight Of Responsibility; It Had Liberated People From The Chimera Of Conscience.

He Was Endowed With The Extraordinary Powers Of Endurance Characteristic Of Madmen And Simpletons.

And In This Silence Of The Dumb And These Speeches Of The Blind, In This Medly Of People Bound Together By The Same Grief, Terror And Hope, In This Hatred And Lack Of Understanding Between Men Who Spoke The Same Tongue, You Could See Much Of The Tragedy Of The Twentieth Century.

There Are People Whose Souls Have Just Withered, People Who Are Willing To Go Along With Anything Evil - Anything So As Not To Be Suspected Of Disagreeing With Whoever Is In Power.

Ivan Tells Anna: "i Used To Imagine That Being Embraced By A Woman . . . As Something So Wonderful That It Would Make Me Forget Everthing . . . [but] Happiness, It Turns Out, Will Be To Share With You The Burden I Can't Share With Anyone Else.