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What kind of shoulders did our women and children have to have in order not to bend under such a weight? But they didn’t bend, they stood! Mikhail Sholokhov “The Fate of Man”

My unshed tears have apparently dried up in my heart. Maybe that's why it hurts so much? Mikhail Sholokhov “The Fate of Man”

The past is like that distant steppe in the haze. In the morning I walked along it, everything was clear all around, but I walked twenty kilometers, and now you couldn’t tell the forest from the weeds, the arable land from the grass cutter... Mikhail Sholokhov “The Fate of a Man”

That's why you're a man, that's why you're a soldier, to endure everything, to endure everything, if need calls for it. And if you have more of a woman’s streak in you than a man’s, then put on a gathered skirt to cover your skinny butt more fully, so that at least from behind you look like a woman, and go weed beets or milk cows, but at the front you are not needed like that, there there's a lot of stink without you! Mikhail Sholokhov “The Fate of Man”

Have you ever seen eyes as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such an inescapable mortal melancholy that it is difficult to look into them? These were the eyes of my random interlocutor. Sholokhov M.A. "The Fate of Man"

I had a family, my own home, all this had been put together for years, and everything collapsed in a single moment, I was left alone. M. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man”

No, it’s not only in their sleep that elderly men, who have turned gray during the years of war, cry. They cry in reality. The main thing here is to be able to turn away in time. The most important thing here is not to hurt the child’s heart, so that he doesn’t see a burning and stingy man’s tear running down your cheek. M. Sholokhov “The Fate of Man”

What a book! in genius and simplicity, the whole meaning of life.

Life went on. No matter what tragedy you have to endure: a car accident, the death of a loved one, betrayal, the disappearance of a relative Dani Atkins “Fate to choose from”

“I love you,” he whispered tenderly. “I’m sorry that you had to confess your feelings first.” Guilty, I agree. But I fell in love first. For a long time, from the very first day. " Dani Atkins "Destiny to choose"

Quotes about fate

Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin

I present to you a selection of quotes about fate .

In ancient times, fate was treated with great respect , but even now, in difficult moments of life, we tend to remember it.

Quotes are summarized by topic: people and fate, freedom and fate, happiness and fate, society and fate, love and fate, blows of fate, features of fate, time and fate, participation in fate, Russians and fate, life and fate, struggle and fate , creativity and fate, woman and fate, power and fate, faith and fate, books and fate, gift of fate, etc.

People and fate

People are the masters of their own destiny. (W. Shakespeare)

For their disasters, people tend to blame fate, the gods and everything else, but not themselves. (Plato)

If we are not aware of what is happening inside us, then from the outside it seems to us that this is fate. (K. Jung)

Fate leads those who want to go, but drags those who don’t want to go... (L. Seneca)

It is much more important how a person relates to fate than what it is in itself. (W. Humboldt)

We are human beings, and our destiny is to learn and be drawn into imperceptible new worlds. (K. Castaneda)

Fate has no reason to bring strangers together without reason. (K. Chanel)

Fate shuffles the cards, and we play. (A. Schopenhauer)

Until fate conquers us, we must lead her by the hand, like a child, and flog her; but if she has conquered us, then we must try to love her. (F. Nietzsche)

What a strange fate that we sin most precisely when we do too much good to others. (W. Shakespeare)

Sow a habit and you will reap a character; sow a character and you will reap a destiny. (W. Thackeray)

For every bright moment or sweet moment, you will pay fate with tears and prayers. (M. Lermontov)

People without strength of character like to invent a “fate” for themselves; this frees them from the need to have their own will - and from responsibility to themselves. (I. Turgenev)

We stand blindly before Fate, It is not for us to tear off its cover... (F. Tyutchev)

Fate runs and runs, and woe to those who, through laziness or stupidity, lag behind its magical run. It's impossible to catch up with her. (A. Kuprin)

Always say what you feel and do what you think! Silence breaks destinies. (P. Coelho)

After all, there are people for whom their whole lives are smooth and smooth, while for others everything is shredded. And they say that his fate depends on the person himself. Nothing from him. (A. Solzhenitsyn)

The first need of a person, whether a leper or a convict, an outcast or an ill person, is to find a comrade in fate. Thirsting to quench this feeling, a person wastes all his strength, all his power, all the ardor of his soul. (E. Fromm)

There is nothing more dangerous than a person who is alien to humanity, who is indifferent to the fate of his native country, to the fate of his neighbor, to everything except the fate of the altyn he has put into circulation. (M. Saltykov-Shchedrin)

With power, with money, or with the crown - Fate throws people around like kittens. (V. Vysotsky)

Anatomy is destiny. (S. Freud)

Every person is his own wheel of fortune and a jack-in-the-box, the one and only cause of his own troubles. It just foolishly seems like the world is full of evil people who are guilty of everything. It may be full, but that doesn't matter. (M. Fry)

Fate is your thoughts, intentions, steps. You are both your own talisman and your own bad omen. (E. Safarli)

By the way, quotes about people

Freedom and destiny

You need to choose your destiny freely and also endure and realize it. (G. Hegel)

Those who are destined, sir, cannot escape fate. (A. Griboyedov)

Fate is most favorable to those enterprises where success depends solely on us. (M. Montaigne)

Fate forced me to move from one king to another, although I idolized Freedom. (Voltaire)

And if there is definitely predestination, then why are we given will, reason? (M. Lermontov)

Man is the master of his own destiny in the sense that he has the freedom to manage his freedom. But what this will lead to is unknown to man. (M. Gandhi)

And yet, in order not to lose free will, I will assume that perhaps fate controls only half of all our affairs, while the other half, or so, is left to the people themselves. I would liken fate to a stormy river, which, raging, floods the banks, knocks down trees, destroys homes, washes away and washes away the earth: everyone runs away from it, everyone retreats before its pressure, powerless to restrain it. But even so, does this prevent people from taking precautionary measures in quiet times, that is, erecting barriers and dams so that, having overflowed its banks, the river either rushes into the canals or stops its uncontrolled and dangerous flow? (N. Machiavelli)

By the way, quotes about freedom

Happiness and destiny

Happiness is a matter of fate, mind and character. (N. Karamzin)

Happy is the one who directs the impulse of spirit for good: he will escape from the power of fortune, will temper his luck, overcome failure, and despise what others admire. (L. Seneca)

A person's happiness and misfortune depend no less on his morals than on fate. (F. La Rochefoucauld)

Fortune turns happiness like a wheel with spokes. (A. Suvorov)

It happens to every person that he is lucky, and happiness flies very close to him. It is important to see him in time and be able to grab the hem of the clothes of fortune flying past him. (O. Bismarck)

ABOUT! Be obedient to your fate, Stop sighing about the future; With a cheerful, indifferent disposition, be able to delight sorrow. To be contented, unpretentious, This is what to be happy: But in this age a person cannot taste perfect blessings. (G. Derzhavin)

By the way, quotes about happiness

Society and fate

Everyone who has thought about the art of governing people is convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. (Aristotle)

One minute decides the outcome of the battle; one hour - campaign success; one day - the fate of the empire. (A. Suvorov)

The closest to the natural state of all those activities that can ensure the existence of a person is the labor of his hands. Of all social positions, the most independent of fate and people is the position of an artisan. (J.-J. Rousseau)

The French Revolution is one of those events that determine the destinies of people for many centuries to come. A new era begins: I see it. (N. Karamzin)

Everything had to be changed. Not one life and not two lives, not one fate and not two destinies - every cog of this stinking world had to be changed. (A. and B. Strugatsky)

Evil is indestructible. No person can reduce its number in the world. He can somewhat improve his own fate, but always at the expense of worsening the fate of others. And there will always be kings, more or less cruel, barons, more or less wild, and there will always be an ignorant people who have admiration for their oppressors and hatred for their liberator. (A. and B. Strugatsky)

Love and fate

The fate of love is to play blind man's buff. (A. Griboyedov)

Death imparts a new form of love - as well as life, it turns love into Fate. (A. Camus)

Yes, my heart yearns more and more for you, and that’s why it gets further and further away. And my voice is becoming more and more false. But you consider it a debt to fate. (I. Brodsky)

Love is for young people. For military personnel and athletes... But here everything is much more complicated. This is no longer love, but fate. (S. Dovlatov)

True love is born only in a heart that has experienced concerns about the fate of another person. (V. Sukhomlinsky)

First love is still a gift from fate, and so it should remain a gift. And everything that happens after first love is all second. (V. Astafiev)

Love cannot prevent a person from following His Destiny. If this happens, it means that love was not true, not the kind that speaks the Universal Language. (P. Coelho)

By the way, quotes about love

Blows of fate

Courage makes the blows of fate insignificant. (Democritus)

We will bow under the weight of fate, not what we want to say, but what we must say. (W. Shakespeare)

When fate throws a spoke in your wheel, only worthless spokes break. (I. Goethe)

The human heart has an unfortunate tendency to call fate only that which crushes it. (A. Camus)

In misfortune, fate always leaves a door to escape. (M. Cervantes)

Look your fate in the face, avoid evil, but if you cannot avoid it, bear the retribution awaiting you like a man, do not lose heart, do not relax like a woman. (N. Machiavelli)

The law of fate is indestructible; We are all insignificant before him. (M. Lermontov)

If fate gives you a lemon, make lemonade out of it. (D. Carnegie)

Taken aback by fate, don’t despair! (K. Prutkov)

Be careful! Don't fall under someone else's wheel of fortune. (S. Jerzy Lec)

Features of fate

Fate is the path from the unknown to the unknown. (Plato)

Fortune is not only blind herself, but also blinds everyone she embraces. (M. Cicero)

Fate gives nothing as eternal property. (L. Seneca)

Fate is a selfish harlot; she does not lie with the hungry. (W. Shakespeare)

Fate never opens one door without slamming another. (V. Hugo)

Fortune has eyes in the back of her head, her hair is short, her flight is lightning fast: if you miss it once, you won’t catch it. (A. Suvorov)

Where there are roses, there are thorns - such is the law of fate. (N. Nekrasov)

Nothing is given for free: fate asks for redemptive sacrifices. (N. Nekrasov)

Fate does not send us messengers - for this it is wise enough or cruel enough. (O. Wilde)

Chance rules everything. I would also like to know who controls the situation. (S. Jerzy Lec)

Time and fate

Time takes away everything; a long series of years can change one’s name, appearance, character, and destiny. (Plato)

You are trying to manage what is still in the hands of fortune, missing out on what was in your own. The future is unknown; live now! (L. Seneca)

The river of times in its rush carries away all the affairs of people and drowns peoples, kingdoms and kings into the abyss of oblivion. And if anything remains Through the sounds of the lyre or trumpet, It will be devoured by the mouth of eternity And the common fate will not go away. (G. Derzhavin)

By the way, quotes about time

Participation in destiny

Humanity is the ability to participate in the fate of other people. (I. Kant)

To tell the truth, no one is very concerned about my fate. (M. Lermontov)

Concern for man and his fate should always be at the forefront of any technological development. Never forget this among your equations and diagrams. (A. Einstein)

A person does not help a person out of gratitude, but simply because he is imbued with sympathy and shows concern for the fate of another person. It's so natural. If you still cannot help anyone today, at least know how to cultivate and preserve gratitude in your soul for those who help you. This is not at all in order to return a person’s moral debt: “You - to me, I - to you,” this sad impression is made. I believe that a noble person will want to help another when he can, for gratitude makes him sensitive to other people's worries and troubles. (E. Leonov)

Russians and fate

Fate was preparing a glorious path for him, a great name - a people's intercessor, consumption and Siberia. (N. Nekrasov)

They say: an entire people cannot be suppressed endlessly. Lie! Can! We see how our people have become devastated, gone wild, and have become indifferent not only to the fate of the country, not only to the fate of their neighbor, but even to their own fate and the fate of their children. Indifference, the body's last saving reaction, has become our defining feature. That is why the popularity of vodka is unprecedented even on a Russian scale. (A. Solzhenitsyn)

The phenomenon of an intelligent person is rare. This is a restless conscience, mind, a complete lack of voice, when it is necessary - for consonance - to “sing along” with the mighty bass of this powerful world, bitter discord with oneself because of the damned question “what is truth?”, pride... And - compassion for the fate of the people . Inevitable, painful. If all this is in one person, he is an intellectual. But that's not all. An intellectual knows that intelligence is not an end in itself. (V. Shukshin)

By the way, quotes about Russians

Life and destiny

Every life creates its own destiny. (A. Amiel)

Adapt yourself to the environment in which you are destined to live, and show true love for your brothers with whom fate has surrounded you. (M. Aurelius)

What different paths our desires and fate take. (W. Shakespeare)

Throughout my life, changeable and full of exceptional vicissitudes of fate, often left without shelter and without a piece of bread, I always looked equally at wealth and poverty. (J.-J. Rousseau)

Life gives nothing for free, and everything that is presented by fate has its own price secretly determined. (S. Zweig)

Fate, the boorish tram, prefers not to deprive life of the effect of surprise. It presents either something that is better than expected, or an order of magnitude worse. (E. Safarli)

By the way, quotes about life

Struggle and fate

As long as a person does not give up, he is stronger than his destiny. (E.M. Remarque)

Always strive to conquer yourself rather than fate, and change your desires rather than the order in the world. (R. Descartes)

Let fate trample me, I’ll see if she doesn’t feel ashamed. (N. Machiavelli)

Let not every warrior harm the enemy, but everyone goes into battle. And fate will decide the battle. (N. Nekrasov)

I see the fate of all things in struggle. No one can evade the fight if he does not want to die. (A. Hitler)

Creativity and destiny

One can hear something terrible in the fate of our poets. (N. Gogol)

When a line is dictated by a feeling, It sends a slave to the stage, And then art ends, And the soil and fate breathe. (B. Pasternak)

Having climbed to the top, I looked around and was horrified: there was no one around... The power of loneliness and the loneliness of power are the main themes of my novels, short stories and stories. Fate played a cruel joke on me: at the end of my life, I myself found myself locked up alone. (G. Marquez)

By the way, quotes about creativity

Woman and fate

And yet I believe that onslaught is better than caution, for fortune is a woman, and whoever wants to deal with her must beat and kick her - she succumbs to such people more quickly than to those who coldly get down to business. Therefore, she, like a woman, is a friend of the young, for they are not so cautious, more courageous... (N. Machiavelli)

A person who certainly wants something forces fate to give in: fate is a woman! (M. Lermontov)

Only a man humiliated by fate can insult a woman. (M. Monroe)

By the way, quotes about women

Power and fate

With the highest destiny comes the least freedom. (Yu. Caesar)

The fate of a people is not stable when it depends on the will, or rather, on the disposition of one person. (M. Cicero)

Those who relied less on the mercy of fate remained in power longer. (N. Machiavelli)

There is no more cruel misfortune in human destiny than when the rulers of the earth are not the first among their subjects. And then everything becomes false, perverse, terrifying. (F. Nietzsche)

Faith and fate

Many seek the ruler’s favorable face, but a person’s destiny is from the Lord. (Solomon)

Righteousness is with love for what fate gives, since nature brought it to you, and you to this. (M. Aurelius)

Angels while away eternity, enjoying this divine concert, which is called chance, inevitability, blind fate. (N. Karamzin)

A believer is not afraid of adversity, but in the face of adversity, he does not despair. (K. Prutkov)

It seems that things are heading towards the fact that Science will discover God. And I tremble in advance for his fate. (S. Jerzy Lec)

Books and fate

The creator of a book is the author, the creator of its destiny is society. (V. Hugo)

One of the truths of my pedagogical faith is my boundless faith in the educational power of the book. School is, first of all, a book. Education is, first of all, words, books, living human relationships. A book is a powerful weapon. A smart, inspired book often decides a person’s fate. (V. Sukhomlinsky)

By the way, quotes about books

A gift of fate

I thank fate that I was born a human and not a dumb animal; a Hellenic, not a barbarian; and also because I had to live in the time of Socrates. (Plato)

At the very hour when he stopped struggling, fate smiled at him. (D. London)

Once in a lifetime, fortune knocks on every person's door, but at this time a person often sits in the nearest pub and does not hear any knock. (M. Twain)

Wisdom and fate

The sage creates his own destiny. (T.M. Plautus)

Fate rarely interferes with the wise. (Epicurus)

Wisdom predominates in advice, and fate predominates in events. (C. Helvetius)

Be softer to people! Do you want to be wiser? - Don’t hurt with your wisdom. Fight with the offender - Fate, be bold. But swear not to offend people! (O. Khayyam)

By the way, quotes about wisdom

Choice of fate

Each is a smith of his own destiny. (Yu. Caesar)

There are no accidents in fate; man creates rather than meets his destiny. (L. Tolstoy)

Sometimes the best way to destroy a person is to let him choose his own fate. (M. Bulgakov)

Fate is not an accident, but a matter of choice; it is not expected, but conquered. (W. Brian)

Death and fate

The worst thing that can happen to us is that we have to die, but since this is our inevitable fate, then we are free: those who have lost everything have nothing to fear. (K. Castaneda)

And we know that it has always been this way. That by fate we love more those who live according to other laws and those who die young. (V. Tsoi)

Stupidity and fate

What people call fate is, in essence, only the totality of the stupidities they have committed. (A. Schopenhauer)

There are people who are destined to be fools: they do stupid things not only of their own free will, but also by the will of fate. (A. Fet)

Courage and fate

Fate helps the brave. (Virgil)

Virtues free us from the dominance of vices, but only courage frees us from the dominance of fate. (F. Bacon)

Persistence softens fate. (G. Flaubert)

About miscellaneous

To punish me for my aversion to authority, fate made me the authority. (A. Einstein)

I believe that a vegetarian diet, if only due to its purely physical effect on the human temperament, should have an extremely beneficial effect on the fate of humanity. (A. Einstein)

Fate, which can bestow a replacement for the lost possibility of satisfaction, finds healing easier than a doctor. (S. Freud)

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! (I. Turgenev)

I don’t quite understand: why do many people call fate a turkey, and not some other bird that is more similar to fate? (K. Prutkov)

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Quotes from the book “The Fate of Man (collection)” by Mikhail Sholokhov

My unshed tears have apparently dried up in my heart. Maybe that's why it hurts so much?

What kind of shoulders did our women and children have to have in order not to bend under such a weight? But they didn’t bend, they stood!

Looking from the outside, she wasn’t all that distinguished, but I wasn’t looking at her from the side, but point-blank.

Two orphaned people, two grains of sand, thrown into foreign lands by a military hurricane of unprecedented force... What awaits them ahead? And I would like to think that this Russian man, a man of unbending will, will endure, and near his father’s shoulder will grow one who, having matured, will be able to endure everything, overcome everything on his way, if his Motherland calls him to do so.

The past is like that distant steppe in the haze. In the morning I walked along it, everything was clear all around, but I walked twenty kilometers, and now you could no longer distinguish the forest from the weeds, the arable land from the grass cutter...

- What do you need me for? - And for life.

“They beat you because you are Russian, because you still look at the world, because you work for them, the bastards. They also beat you for looking the wrong way, stepping the wrong way, or turning the wrong way. They simply beat him, in order to kill him to death one day...”

Quotes from Sholokhov

Prepared by: Dmitry Sirotkin

I present to you a selection of quotes from the Soviet writer Mikhail Sholokhov (1905 - 1984).

He was the most Soviet writer of the Russian-speaking Nobel laureates in literature.

Quotes are organized by topic: war, life, women, civil war, life ethics, death, Cossacks, people, patriotism, language, writers, fools, Stalin, passion, love, children, happiness, health, nature.

About war

War is not without its losses.

Only those who firmly know what they are fighting for and believe in their cause win.

People, smelling the smell of gunpowder, blinded and deafened by what was happening, lived quickly and greedily, one day at a time.

War is war, but life without bread is also boring.

And it was like this: people collided on the field of death, who had not yet had time to break their hands in the destruction of their own kind, in the animal horror that overwhelmed them, they stumbled, knocked down, delivered blind blows, mutilated themselves and their horses and fled, frightened by the shot that killed a person, they drove away, morally crippled . This was called a feat.

Previously, at least in the era of Napoleon, it was good to fight! Two armies met, bumped into each other, and separated. No fronts for you, no seats in the trenches.

I can't stand it when I don't see the enemy. This nasty feeling is tantamount to fear. You are being shot at at a distance of several miles, and you are riding on a horse, like a dudak across the steppe under the gun of a hunter.

What kind of shoulders did our women and children have to have in order not to bend under such a weight? But they didn’t bend, they stood!

By the way, quotes about war

About life

In life, it doesn’t happen that everyone lives equally.

It doesn’t happen that you have to live in the cold all your life.

Ask any elderly person, did he notice how he lived his life? He didn't notice a damn thing!

Swept out of the riverbed, life is divided into many branches. It is difficult to predetermine which way she will take her treacherous and crafty course. Where today life is shallow, like a river on a riffle, so shallow that you can see its filthy scattering, tomorrow it will be full-flowing, rich.

That’s why youth is given to be ebullient, active, life-affirming.

I feel cheerful and good because the day, blue with a cloudless sky, is also cheerful and good; because there is the same blue peace and purity in my soul. I'm happy and I don't want anything more.

By the way, quotes about life

About women

A woman's heart is susceptible to pity and affection.

Baba is a cat: whoever strokes him, he fawns on him.

The wife is not a bear, she will not go into the forest.

Looking from the outside, she wasn’t all that distinguished, but I wasn’t looking at her from the side, but point-blank.

In her beautiful figure and face there was that fading, flawed beauty with which a woman who has lived through her thirtieth autumn dimly glows. But in her mocking, cold eyes and in her movements she still preserved an unspent reserve of youth.

Women and girls who had lost their maiden color walked through the hands of Gregory, sharing a short love with him.

By the way, quotes about women

About the civil war

The people need the truth, but everyone is burying it, burying it. They say that she has been dead for a long time.

Stinking Rus' should not rule over us.

If the master is bad, then the boorish master is a hundred times worse.

Let Russia be on its own, we are on our own.

You can offer me any flag - except the red one, any coat of arms - except the Jewish five-pointed star or other Masonic sign, and any anthem - except the "Internationale".

There is no need for any more will, otherwise they will kill each other in the streets. The atamans were elected themselves, and now they are imprisoned.

About life ethics

Life will force you to figure it out, and not only force you, but also forcefully push you to one side.

People have always fought for a piece of bread, for a plot of land, for the right to life and will continue to fight as long as the sun shines on them, as long as warm blood oozes through their veins.

I have lived and experienced everything in my time. He fell in love with women and girls, he trampled the steppe on good horses, he rejoiced in fatherhood and killed people, he went to his death, he showed off in the blue sky. What new thing will life show me? There is nothing new! You might as well die. Not scary.

A bad will is still better than a good prison.

About death

If there is no meaning in death, then there was no meaning in life.

You cannot destroy an animal without need, but destroy a person. He's a rotten man. Evil spirits, stinking on the earth, living like a toadstool mushroom.

The graves are overgrown with grass, and the pain is overgrown with time. The wind licked the traces of the departed - time will lick both the blood pain and the memory of those who did not live to see their loved ones and will not, because human life is short and we are all destined to trample the grass for a short time. No matter how saintly he may be, after death, according to the law of nature, he must stink like a cesspool.

About the Cossacks

You are a Cossack, your job is to chop without asking. In battle, killing an enemy is a sacred thing. For every person you kill, God forgives you one sin, just like for a snake.

For Cossacks, crying is a great shame.

I am without a weapon, like a woman with her hem pulled up - naked.

Robbery in war has always been the most important driving force for the Cossacks.

About people

We are, in essence, pawns on a chess field, and pawns do not know where the player’s hand will send them.

People are like sheep: where the ram goes, so does the whole herd.

One is sick of smoking and dying.

Have you ever seen eyes as if sprinkled with ashes, filled with such an inescapable mortal melancholy that it is difficult to look into them?

By the way, quotes about people

About patriotism

It is a sacred duty to love the country that gave us water and nurtured us like a mother.

If love for the Motherland is kept in our hearts and will be kept as long as these hearts beat, then we always carry hatred for our enemies at the tips of our bayonets.

It’s bitter and insulting that some slugs are ruling the country. Lack of will, weak character, inability, indecision, often simple meanness - this is what guides the actions of this, so to speak, “government.”

About the language

The greatest wealth of a people is its language.

For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

The diversity of human relationships is immeasurable, which are imprinted in well-known folk sayings and aphorisms.

About the writers

We write according to our hearts, and our hearts belong to the party.

A writer must be able to directly tell the reader the truth, no matter how bitter it may be. Therefore, the evaluation of each work of art must first of all be approached from the point of view of its truthfulness and persuasiveness.

Love the book with all your heart! She is not only your best friend, but also your faithful companion to the end.

About fools

You have a smart head, but the fool got it.

Every fool goes crazy in his own way.

A smart person is smart with a fool, but a fool with a smart person is always a fool.

About Stalin

Yes, there was a cult. But there was also a personality!

It happens that one word, coming from the heart and spoken in a low voice, replaces all other words, especially when there are many of them... Our entire great country owes its power and prosperity to the party and Stalin. The people love their leader, their Stalin, with a simple and courageous love, and want to hear words about him that are just as simple and courageous. But, it seems to me, some of those who write resolutions and articles with a familiar hand sometimes forget, when talking about Stalin, that one can thank without verbosity, love without frequent mention of it, and evaluate the activities of a great man without abusing epithets. (by the way, quotes from Joseph Stalin)

About passion

So extraordinary and obvious was their crazy connection, so frantically they burned with a shameless flame, people without conscience and without hiding, losing weight and blackening their faces in front of their neighbors, that now for some reason people were ashamed to look at them when they met.

She drains me. I am physically devastated and resemble a bare sunflower stalk. This is not a woman, but a fire with smoke.

About love

- What do you need me for? - And for the rest of my life...

Late woman's love blooms not with an azure scarlet color, but with a dog's furious, roadside drunkenness.

By the way, quotes about love

About children

How these kids' hair smells! The sun, grass, a warm pillow and something else infinitely familiar. And they themselves - this flesh of his flesh - are like tiny steppe birds.

A child’s memory is like a summer lightning: it will flare up, briefly illuminate everything, and then go out.

By the way, quotes about children

Oh happiness

In essence, a person needs very little to be happy.

Young happiness is always invisible.

By the way, quotes about happiness

About health

Health is the head of everything.

And then we, you know how? Until it hurts my heart, I walk around and see nothing around me.

By the way, quotes about health

About nature

Against the black background of the thawed earth, the remaining piece of snow always appears more tempting and brighter.

The sun was ripening over the orange apricot farm.

About miscellaneous

The blind man said, “We’ll see.”

We have one road, but everyone drives differently.

The earth is like a woman: it is not given on its own, it must be taken away.

You can't figure it out without vodka.

My unshed tears have apparently dried up in my heart. Maybe that's why it hurts so much?

From childhood, my mother taught me to love the Ukrainian people, Ukrainian art, and Ukrainian songs - one of the sweetest in the world.

Of course, quotes from writers do not always reflect the scale of their literary talent, but it seems to me that the quotes given do not quite correspond to what you expect from a Nobel laureate. interesting thoughts and ideas .

Quotes about Sholokhov

M. Gorky: Sholokhov, judging by the first volume, is talented... Russia is very, anathemaly talented. (by the way, quotes from Maxim Gorky)
Yu. Bondarev: The peculiarity of Sholokhov (and this is the property of a true artist) is that his books are firmly etched in the memory, they are not forgotten, no matter what situation you are in, no matter what you think about, no matter how hard or easy it is for you was.
Yu. Gagarin: Sholokhov is full of cordiality and friendliness. He puts you at ease from the very first phrase. An atmosphere is created in which you are convinced that you have personally known him for a long time, and he has known your life for a long time.
C. Snow: Of all the Russian writers since Chekhov, he achieved the widest popularity in the West. In my country and in America he is read much more than any of his younger contemporaries.
Ch. Aitmatov: Sholokhov is an artist-genius, a completely special phenomenon in its epic scope, extraordinary expressiveness and poetic power of realistic storytelling, a purely Soviet and at the same time worldwide phenomenon.
V. Shukshin: How did he seem to me when we met in person? Very deep, wise, simple. For me, Sholokhov is the personification of the chronicler. Sholokhov is a sage. Charming man. It turned out that he knows me better than I know him... (by the way, quotes from Vasily Shukshin)
L. Katsis: And against this background [Akhmatova, Pasternak, etc.] he, the fact of the matter is that this man was not even able to simply say that I lived at the time when they were. It’s like he wasn’t there, and he’s still not there. Exactly as a writer, as a person, as a person who corresponds to his texts. And what I said about his environment, it most clearly shows who stuck to him. Even just by level.
V. Erofeev: From my point of view, the third and especially the fourth volumes of “Quiet Don” are much inferior to the first two. Probably, the novel is still a reworking of the primary material of another author. I don’t know how Mikhail Alexandrovich felt morally when he heard talk about his “non-authorship.” But I think he lived more freely in Veshenskaya than in intellectual Moscow. He was chained to Soviet power by the glory and care of the party, and without it he could have ended up as a marshal without a uniform.

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Author's aphorisms: the fate of man

A half-drunk Muller is sitting right in front of me, playing with a pistol, throwing it from hand to hand, and he looks at me and doesn’t blink, like a snake. Well, my hands are at my sides, my worn-out heels click, and I report loudly: “Prisoner of war Andrei Sokolov, on your orders, Herr Commandant, has appeared.” He asks me: “So, Russian Ivan, is four cubic meters of output a lot?” “That’s right,” I say, “Herr Commandant, a lot.” - “Is one enough for your grave?” - “That’s right, Herr Commandant, in... ... show full text...

The fate of each person deserves a separate book. For bores, it would have one page...

Elderly loneliness.

Covered by drifts of snow On the edge, among rural houses, there stands a house, lonely and chilled, exuding its call to the children.

There is an elderly old woman at the window. A thoughtful look cast into the distance. There are silvery tears in my eyes. As a son, I feel very sorry for her.

The emaciated body is sick, It’s already difficult to walk around the yard. She would like someone in the house to help her... She would silently wait for her children.

She buried her husband a long time ago, and her mother died even earlier. From her usual, noisy happiness, melancholy took her modestly.

The winds blow along the river near the house, causing melancholy and sadness, And her eyes are very sad, Still looking into the receding distance.

Mother of many children, heroine! But, alas, there is no one nearby... The children grew up and got married and left home a long time ago.

And now, from arrival to arrival, she waits for her son, then for her daughter, To relieve herself around the house, Asks children in trouble to help her.

She is waiting for her relatives, but she herself does not move out to stay with any of the children. In this house, her whole life flew by in her difficult, but simple fate.

Summary of “The Fate of Man” for a reader’s diary

Title : Man's Fate

Number of pages : 80. Sholokhov M. A. “The Fate of a Man.” Publishing house "Rech". 2021

Genre : Story

Year of writing : 1956

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Main characters

Andrei Sokolov is a simple, modest soldier, driver, honest, decent, conscientious, merciful person.

Anatoly is the eldest son of Andrei Sokolov, a brave soldier who died from a sniper’s bullet on Victory Day.

Vanyushka is Sokolov’s adopted son, a small, street boy, kind and open.

His wife Irina, daughters Nastya and Olya are the family of Andrei Sokolov, who after the tragic death lived only in his memories.

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Crossing the Elanka River, the narrator met a man and a boy. They started talking, and soon a casual acquaintance told the author the story of his difficult life.

Andrei Sokolov was originally from the Voronezh province. As a young guy, he went to Kuban, where he worked hard. During these years, severe famine raged, and Andrei's family died. Soon he returned to Voronezh, where he married an orphan Irina - a simple, modest, kind girl. Andrei's family life went well from the very beginning - his wife turned out to be an understanding, affectionate woman who gave him a son, Anatoly, and two daughters, Nastya and Olya. Mutual love and respect reigned in the Sokolov family, but this idyll was forever destroyed by the war.

When Irina and the children accompanied the head of the family to the front, the woman was haunted by a bad feeling. She could not let go of her beloved husband, and he even pushed her away, which he later very much regretted - they were never destined to see each other again.

During the war, Sokolov served in his profession as a driver. He was wounded twice, and in the spring of 1942 he was captured. When the column with Soviet prisoners settled down for the night in the church, the hero learned of the upcoming betrayal - his colleague Kryzhnev was going to hand over his platoon leader, an ardent communist, to the Germans. Sokolov strangled the traitor with his own hands. The next morning, the Germans began to interrogate the prisoners whether there were communists, commanders and commissars among them, but no one said a word, and everyone remained alive. During the transfer, Sokolov tried to escape, but dogs were set on him and he was returned to the camp.

After two years of hard labor at a stone quarry, Sokolov was assigned as a driver to a German major engineer. He treated him well and gave him food. In June 1944, the hero, taking advantage of the opportunity, stunned the major and fled to the front line to his own.

While being treated in a hospital, Sokolov wrote a letter home, but received a terrible answer from a neighbor - his wife and daughters died at the very beginning of the war from a fascist shell that hit their house. Only Andrei survived, who, after graduating from artillery school, went to the front.

A terrible blow for Sokolov was the news of the death of his son on the day of the Great Victory. He did not want to return to his hometown, where everything would remind him of his former happy life. The hero went to his friend, where he got a job as a driver. One day he met an orphan boy and became attached to him with all his soul. Sokolov adopted the homeless Vanyushka, and caring for the child helped the hero cope with the pain of losing his own family.

Extracurricular reading lesson based on M. Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of Man”

Extracurricular reading lesson based on M. Sholokhov’s book “The Fate of Man.” 9th grade.

Topic: “Russian character” as depicted by M. Sholokhov (based on the story “The Fate of a Man”).

Target:

reveal the conceptual and artistic innovation of M. Sholokhov in the depiction of man in war; analyze the episodes of the story; determine the meaning of the title; instill in students a love for their homeland.

Equipment:

portraits of M. Sholokhov, illustrations for the story “The Fate of Man,” books by M. Sholokhov, epigraph, tape recorder.

Epigraph:

A Russian man, a man of unbending will... will be able to endure everything, overcome everything on his way, if his Motherland calls him to this.

M. Sholokhov

During the classes

: 1) Organizational moment.

2) Teacher’s word (to music).

The Great Patriotic War... How many troubles it brought, how many wounds it left on earth... But for us young people, it is very difficult to understand and imagine... It is very difficult to understand and imagine how young guys played with death in a real way: they threw themselves under tanks, onto bunkers ; very young, fragile girls-nurses carried wounded men out from under fire; how your peers stood at their machines for days, making shells for the front; how collective farmers gave away their last crumbs of bread, while they themselves remained hungry. Everything for the front, everything for Victory!

Literature helps us understand all this, which did not die during the war or in the hungry post-war years, but supported the morale of the soldiers and the faith of the people in the best. It is to the Russian character, who can endure and overcome everything, that this lesson is dedicated to M. Sholokhov’s story “The Fate of a Man,” which appeared in 1957 in Pravda and immediately found a response in the hearts of readers. The main character was a Russian soldier who was captured.

3) Conversation based on the text.

— What time of year is depicted in the story? (first post-war spring

— Why do you think spring? ( awakening nature - awakening the hero

What details create the mood of the landscape? ( Words: difficult, impassable, difficult. The image of a difficult road prepares us to depict Sokolov’s difficult life path

— What is special about the composition? (ring

— What parts can Andrei Sokolov’s story about his fate be divided into? ( three: pre-war

,
war and post-war
).

- Without knowing the history of his life, what can you say about this man? Find and read the description of the hero, his portrait.

— How do you understand the expression “eyes as if sprinkled with ashes”? ( ashes are the burned
past
).

— What events does the hero talk about in the pre-war period? Where does Sokolov see his happiness? ( Life is uneventful, but there is little about myself, and mostly about the children and wife. “What else do you need? The children eat porridge with milk, there is a roof over their heads, they are dressed, they have shoes, so everything is in order

»).

- How does he evaluate his actions? What does he see as his fault? (“If my shack were in a different place, maybe my life would have turned out differently,” “Until my death, until my last hour, I will die, and I won’t forgive myself for pushing her away...” The hero is characterized by conscientiousness, a heightened sense of responsibility for other people's fates

— What trials did the hero have to go through during the war? ( wound, captivity, concentration camp, death of family, loss of son on Victory Day

— Remember the heroes of other literary works about the Second World War. What feats do they perform? Are there such feats in this story?

— What is the fundamental difference between Andrei and the heroes you know? ( We don’t see him in a battle situation

- why only in 1956, 10 years after the described meeting between the author and the hero, did Sholokhov turn to the story about the fate of the Russian soldier? ( to draw attention to the fate of prisoners of war

What can a man without a weapon oppose to fascism? To answer this question, consider the episode in the church. There are different types of human behavior represented here. Which? Whose position is closer to Sokolov? Why? ( A Christian prefers death, but does not renounce his convictions - he is responsible for the death of four people; Krezhnev is trying to buy his right to life by paying with someone else’s life; the platoon commander resignedly awaits his fate; only the doctor, “who did his great work both in captivity and in the darkness » commands respect

- Why does Sokolov kill Krezhnev? ( He sees salvation in the unity of people

- Where is the climax of the story?

— Why does Mueller arrange a drinking ritual before executing a soldier? ( Putting a Russian soldier on his knees will merge with the victory of the German army at Stalingrad

A moral duel takes place. Who wins this fight and at what moment? ( Sokolov, refusing to drink, enters into a confrontation with a well-fed, armed enemy. He takes his eyes off the food and refuses a snack. “I wanted to show them, damned,... that I have my own, Russian dignity and pride and that they turned me into a beast they didn’t convert, no matter how hard they tried.”

— at what point do we even respect Mueller?

- Yes, Sokolov suffered a lot, but he was able to survive. Let's remember his humiliation.

4) Reading the passage “They beat us...”

5) Conversation.

- Sokolov lost everything: his home, his loved ones - hence - “eyes sprinkled with ashes”. Why does he decide to adopt an orphan boy? ( You cannot save the world from destruction alone, but a person is able to resist the destruction of his own personality - one cannot remain indifferent to the loneliness of others

- What will Vanyushka experience when he finds his “father” and what does Sokolov experience when he tells a lie?

6) Reading of the episode to prepared students (to music).

7) Conversation.

— What worries Andrey? ( I’m afraid that someday I’ll die in my sleep and scare my little son.”)

— Do you agree with Byron’s words: “To dry one tear is more valor than to shed a sea of blood”?

- Why does Sholokhov call the story about the fate of Sokolov “The Fate of a Man” and not “The Fate of Andrei”? (the author’s attention to the individual human personality, Andrei’s fate is the fate of the entire people, who went through the most severe trials during the Second World War, but retained their soul

What does Sokolov’s fate teach us?

Teacher's word. Summarizing.

- Indeed, “the Russian man, a man of unbending will... will be able to endure everything, overcome everything...” From this story we learned one simple truth: to win a war, it is not enough to have good weapons and a strong army, the most important thing is the spirit of a soldier, if he is not broken, then no weapon can defeat him. And most importantly: despite all the trials that fate presents, one must remain human. So remember this terrible time, do not dare to forget the military and civil feat of our Russian people.

Let's remember everyone by name,

Let us remember with our grief...

This is necessary - not for the dead!

This is necessary - alive!

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