Top 6 Varlam Shalamov Quotes
#1. Life repeats Shakespearian themes more often than we think. Did Lady Macbeth, Richard III, and King Claudius exist only in the Middle Ages? Shylock wanted to cut a pound of flesh from the body of the merchant of Venice. Is that a fairy tale?
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#2. If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.
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#3. There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.
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#4. Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friend.
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#5. A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.
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#6. We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.
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