In Chapter 3 of Part 2 of "How Steel Was Tempered".

Paul Korchagin's famous sayings about life:

People are the most precious Life is life. Everyone has only one life. A person's life should be spent like this: looking back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be ashamed of being humble and vulgar; when he is dying, he can say: "My My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle for the liberation of all mankind."

What Paul said when he paid homage to the grave of his female comrade Valian. .,

The following is an excerpt from the cemetery part in Chapter 3 of Part 2 of "How Steel Was Tempered":

Paul walked to the pine forest unknowingly, and at the fork in the road The mouth stopped. On the right is the gloomy old prison, with a tall pointed wooden fence separating it from the pine forest. Behind the prison is the white building of the hospital.

It is here, in In this empty square, Varya and her comrades were hanged. Paul stood silently for a while at the original place where the gallows was set up, then walked towards the steep slope and went down the slope to the cemetery where the martyrs were buried.

Some thoughtful person placed a wreath made of spruce branches around the grave, as if building a green wall for this small cemetery. Tall pine trees stand tall on the steep slope, and the slope of the canyon The grass is green.

This is the edge of the small town, quiet and desolate. The pine forest is whispering, the spring earth is reviving, exuding a moist earthy smell. It is here that the comrades died heroically. They Paul gave his life so that those who were born poor and became slaves could live a better life.

Paul slowly took off his hat. Sadness, huge sadness, full of His heart was broken.

The most precious thing for a person is life. Everyone has only one life. A person's life should be spent like this: Looking back on the past, he will not regret for wasting his years, nor will he be despicable. Vulgar and ashamed; on his deathbed, he was able to say: "My whole life and all my energy have been dedicated to the most magnificent cause in the world - the struggle to liberate all mankind." We must seize the time to live quickly, because a An inexplicable disease or an unexpected tragic event will interrupt life.

With this thought in mind, Paul left the Tomb of the Martyrs.