Lose yourself to love, you will find a true happiness and lasting life.

Lose yourself to love.

"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...

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. 

But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. 

No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities... 

I have seen that it is not man who is impotent in the struggle against evil, but the power of evil that is impotent in the struggle against man.

This dumb, blind love is man’s meaning. Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil.

It is a battle fought by a great evil, struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

But if what is human in human beings has not been destroyed even now, then evil will never conquer."

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

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