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“Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friend.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“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.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolymskie rasskazy

“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?”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“We realized that life, even the worst of life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrow, successes and failure more than the successes.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“I remember the old northern legend of how God created the taiga while he was still a child. There were few colors, but they were childishly fresh and vivid, and their subjects were simple. Later, when God grew up and became an adult, he learned to cut out complicated patters from his pages and created many bright birds. God grew bored with his former child's world and he threw snow on his forest creation and went south forever.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“Cold, hunger, and sleeplessness rendered any friendship impossible, and Dugaev 鈥� despite his youth 鈥� understood the falseness of the belief that friendship could be tempered by misery and tragedy. For friendship to be friendship, its foundation had to be laid before living conditions reached that last border beyond which no human emotion was left to a man 鈥� only mistrust, rage, and lies. Dugaev remembered well the northern proverb that listed the three commandments of prison life: 鈥楧on鈥檛 believe, don鈥檛 fear, don鈥檛 ask.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“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.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“We realized that life, even the worst life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and there was no need to fear the failures more than the successes.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“I believed a person could consider himself a human being as long as he felt totally prepared to kill himself, to interfere in his own biography. It was this awareness that gave me the will to live. I checked myself 鈥� frequently 鈥� and felt I had the strength to die, and thus remained alive.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“We learned one other amazing thing: in the eyes of the state and its representatives a physically strong person was better 鈥� yes, better 鈥� more moral, more valuable than a weak person who couldn鈥檛 shovel twenty cubic meters of dirt out of a trench in a day. The former was more moral than the latter. He fulfilled his 鈥榪uota鈥�, that is, carried out his chief duty to the state and society and was therefore respected by all. His advice was asked and his desires were taken into consideration, he was invited to meetings whose topics were far removed from shovelling heavy slippery dirt from wet and slimy ditches.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

“Friendship is not born in conditions of need or trouble. Literary fairy tales tell of 鈥榙ifficult鈥� conditions which are an essential element in forming any friendship, but such conditions are simply not difficult enough. If tragedy and need brought people together and gave birth to their friendship, then the need was not extreme and the tragedy not great. Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friends.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“Trees in the north die lying down 鈥� like people.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“An intellectual, once imprisoned, is crushed by the camp. Everything that used to be dear to him is trampled into the dust, and he sheds his civilization and culture in the shortest imaginable time, a matter of weeks.
In any discussion the main argument is a fist or a stick. The means of compulsion is a rifle butt or a punch in the mouth.
An intellectual turns into a coward, and his own brain suggests a justification for his actions. He can persuade himself of anything, he can take any side in an argument. The criminal world calls intellectuals "life teachers," fighters "for the people's rights."
A "slapping," a punch, is enough to turn an intellectual into the obedient servant of some thieving Senia or Kostia.
Physical influence becomes moral influence.
The intellectual becomes a permanently scared creature. His spirit is broken. Even when he gets back to life in freedom, he will still have this intimidated and broken spirit.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“Kolyma is Auschwitz without the ovens.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“Friendship is not born in conditions of need or trouble. Literary fairy tales tell of 鈥榙ifficult鈥� conditions which are an essential element in forming any friendship, but such conditions are simply not difficult enough. If tragedy and need brought people together and gave birth to their friendship, then the need was not extreme and the tragedy not great. Tragedy is not deep and sharp if it can be shared with friends. Only real need can determine one鈥檚 spiritual and physical strength and set the limits of one鈥檚 physical endurance and moral courage.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“袩芯屑薪褞, 聽泻邪泻 胁 聽锌褉械写蟹懈屑薪褞褞 锌芯褉褍 聽褏芯谢芯写芯屑, 谢褜写芯屑 褍卸械 褋褏胁邪褌褘胁邪谢芯 谐褉褟蟹褜 薪邪 褌褉芯锌械, 懈 谐褉褟蟹褜 斜褍写褌芯 蟹邪褋邪褏邪褉懈胁邪谢邪褋褜, 泻邪泻 胁邪褉械薪褜械.”
― 袙邪褉谢邪屑 楔邪谢邪屑芯胁, 袣芯谢褘屑褋泻懈械 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹褘. 小褌懈褏芯褌胁芯褉械薪懈褟

“A horse can't endure even a month of the local winter life in a cold stall if it's worked hard hours in subzero weather. . . . But man lives on. Perhaps he lives by virtue of his hopes? But he doesn't have any hope . . . . . He is saved by a drive for self-preservation, a tenacious clinging to life, a physical tenacity to which his entire consciousness is subordinated. He lives on the same things as a bird or a dog, but he clings more strongly to life than they do. He has a greater endurance than that of any animal.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“携 胁褋锌芯屑薪懈谢 褋褌邪褉褍褞 褋械胁械褉薪褍褞 谢械谐械薪写褍 芯 斜芯谐械, 泻芯褌芯褉褘泄 斜褘谢 械褖械 褉械斜械薪泻芯屑,
泻芯谐写邪 褋芯蟹写邪胁邪谢 褌邪泄谐褍. 袣褉邪褋芯泻 斜褘谢芯 薪械屑薪芯谐芯, 泻褉邪褋泻懈 斜褘谢懈 锌芯-褉械斜褟褔械褋泻懈 褔懈褋褌褘,
褉懈褋褍薪泻懈 锌褉芯褋褌褘 懈 褟褋薪褘, 褋褞卸械褌褘 懈褏 薪械屑褍写褉械薪褘械.
袩芯褋谢械, 泻芯谐写邪 斜芯谐 胁褘褉芯褋, 褋褌邪谢 胁蟹褉芯褋谢褘屑, 芯薪 薪邪褍褔懈谢褋褟 胁褘褉械蟹邪褌褜 锌褉懈褔褍写谢懈胁褘械
褍蟹芯褉褘 谢懈褋褌胁褘, 胁褘写褍屑邪谢 屑薪芯卸械褋褌胁芯 褉邪蟹薪芯褑胁械褌薪褘褏 锌褌懈褑. 袛械褌褋泻懈泄 屑懈褉 薪邪写芯械谢 斜芯谐褍,
懈 芯薪 蟹邪泻懈写邪谢 褋薪械谐芯屑 褌邪械卸薪芯械 褋胁芯械 褌胁芯褉械薪褜械 懈 褍褕械谢 薪邪 褞谐 薪邪胁褋械谐写邪. 孝邪泻
谐芯胁芯褉懈谢邪 谢械谐械薪写邪.”
― 袙邪褉谢邪屑 楔邪谢邪屑芯胁, Kolyma Tales

“Only a simple black pencil will do for making a notation of a benchmark. Ink will run, be dissolved by the tree sap, be washed away by rain, dew, fog, and snow. Nothing as artificial as ink will do for recording eternity and immortality. Graphite is carbon that has been subjected to enormous pressure for millions of years and that might have become coal or diamonds. Instead, however, it has been transformed into something more precious than a diamond; it has become a pencil that can record all that it has seen鈥� A pencil is a greater miracle than a diamond, although the chemical make-up of graphite and diamond is identical.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“袛褉褍卸斜邪 薪械 蟹邪褉芯卸写邪械褌褋褟 薪懈 胁 薪褍卸写械, 薪懈 胁 斜械写械. 孝械 芦褌褉褍写薪褘械禄 褍褋谢芯胁懈褟 卸懈蟹薪懈, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械, 泻邪泻 谐芯胁芯褉褟褌 薪邪屑 褋泻邪蟹泻懈 褏褍写芯卸械褋褌胁械薪薪芯泄 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉褘, 褟胁谢褟褞褌褋褟 芯斜褟蟹邪褌械谢褜薪褘屑 褍褋谢芯胁懈械屑 胁芯蟹薪懈泻薪芯胁械薪懈褟 写褉褍卸斜褘, 锌褉芯褋褌芯 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌芯褔薪芯 褌褉褍写薪褘. 袝褋谢懈 斜械写邪 懈 薪褍卸写邪 褋锌谢芯褌懈谢懈, 褉芯写懈谢懈 写褉褍卸斜褍 谢褞写械泄 鈥� 蟹薪邪褔懈褌, 褝褌芯 薪褍卸写邪 薪械 泻褉邪泄薪褟褟 懈 斜械写邪 薪械 斜芯谢褜褕邪褟. 袚芯褉械 薪械写芯褋褌邪褌芯褔薪芯 芯褋褌褉芯 懈 谐谢褍斜芯泻芯, 械褋谢懈 屑芯卸薪芯 褉邪蟹写械谢懈褌褜 械谐芯 褋 写褉褍蟹褜褟屑懈. 袙 薪邪褋褌芯褟褖械泄 薪褍卸写械 锌芯蟹薪邪械褌褋褟 褌芯谢褜泻芯 褋胁芯褟 褋芯斜褋褌胁械薪薪邪褟 写褍褕械胁薪邪褟 懈 褌械谢械褋薪邪褟 泻褉械锌芯褋褌褜, 芯锌褉械写械谢褟褞褌褋褟 锌褉械写械谢褘 褋胁芯懈褏 胁芯蟹屑芯卸薪芯褋褌械泄, 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻芯泄 胁褘薪芯褋谢懈胁芯褋褌懈 懈 屑芯褉邪谢褜薪芯泄 褋懈谢褘.”
― Varlam Shalamov, 袣芯谢褘屑褋泻懈械 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹褘

“That same sense of direction that animals possess perfectly also awakens in man under the right conditions.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“I'm dressed appropriate for the season mama, I'm dressed appropriately for the season.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“携 薪械 蟹薪邪褞 谢褞写械泄, 泻芯褌芯褉褘械 褋锌邪谢懈 褉褟写芯屑 褋芯 屑薪芯泄. 携 薪懈泻芯谐写邪 薪械 蟹邪写邪胁邪谢 懈屑 胁芯锌褉芯褋芯胁, 懈 薪械 锌芯褌芯屑褍, 褔褌芯 褋谢械写芯胁邪谢 邪褉邪斜褋泻芯泄 锌芯褋谢芯胁懈褑械: 薪械 褋锌褉邪褕懈胁邪泄 鈥� 懈 褌械斜械 薪械 斜褍写褍褌 谢谐邪褌褜. 袦薪械 斜褘谢芯 胁褋械 褉邪胁薪芯 鈥� 斜褍写褍褌 屑薪械 谢谐邪褌褜 懈谢懈 薪械 斜褍写褍褌, 褟 斜褘谢 胁薪械 锌褉邪胁写褘, 胁薪械 谢卸懈. 校 斜谢邪褌薪褘褏 薪邪 褋械泄 锌褉械写屑械褌 械褋褌褜 卸械褋褌泻邪褟, 褟褉泻邪褟, 谐褉褍斜邪褟 锌芯谐芯胁芯褉泻邪, 锌褉芯薪懈蟹邪薪薪邪褟 谐谢褍斜芯泻懈屑 锌褉械蟹褉械薪懈械屑 泻 蟹邪写邪褞褖械屑褍 胁芯锌褉芯褋: 薪械 胁械褉懈褕褜 鈥� 锌褉懈屑懈 蟹邪 褋泻邪蟹泻褍. 携 薪械 褉邪褋褋锌褉邪褕懈胁邪谢 懈 薪械 胁褘褋谢褍褕懈胁邪谢 褋泻邪蟹芯泻.”
― 袙邪褉谢邪屑 楔邪谢邪屑芯胁, 袣芯谢褘屑褋泻懈械 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹褘. 小褌懈褏芯褌胁芯褉械薪懈褟

“袥邪谐械褉褜 鈥� 芯褌褉懈褑邪褌械谢褜薪邪褟 褕泻芯谢邪 卸懈蟹薪懈 褑械谢懈泻芯屑 懈 锌芯谢薪芯褋褌褜褞. 袧懈褔械谐芯 锌芯谢械蟹薪芯谐芯, 薪褍卸薪芯谐芯 薪懈泻褌芯 芯褌褌褍写邪 薪械 胁褘薪械褋械褌, 薪懈 褋邪屑 蟹邪泻谢褞褔械薪薪褘泄, 薪懈 械谐芯 薪邪褔邪谢褜薪懈泻, 薪懈 械谐芯 芯褏褉邪薪邪, 薪懈 薪械胁芯谢褜薪褘械 褋胁懈写械褌械谢懈 鈥� 懈薪卸械薪械褉褘, 谐械芯谢芯谐懈, 胁褉邪褔懈, 鈥� 薪懈 薪邪褔邪谢褜薪懈泻懈, 薪懈 锌芯写褔懈薪械薪薪褘械.

袣邪卸写邪褟 屑懈薪褍褌邪 谢邪谐械褉薪芯泄 卸懈蟹薪懈 鈥� 芯褌褉邪胁谢械薪薪邪褟 屑懈薪褍褌邪.”
― 袙邪褉谢邪屑 楔邪谢邪屑芯胁, 袣芯谢褘屑褋泻懈械 褉邪褋褋泻邪蟹褘. 小褌懈褏芯褌胁芯褉械薪懈褟

“Every minute of camp life is poisoned.
There is a lot in the camps that a man must not know or see, and if he does see it, he is better off dead.
Prisoners in the camps learn to hate labor. That is all they can learn there.
They are taught flattery, lying, vileness, petty and serious, and they become egotists.
When they are released, they see that not only have they failed to grow while in the camps but that their interests have narrowed and become wretched and coarse.
Moral barriers have been pushed aside.
You find out that you can do something vile and still live.
You can lie and still live.
You can make promises and fail to keep them and still live.
You can spend a friend's money on drink.
You can beg for charity and still live! You can live as a beggar.
It turns out that a man who has done something vile doesn't then die.
He learns to live a life of idleness, deceit, and resentment against everyone and everything.
He overvalues his own sufferings and forgets that everyone has their own grief; he just can't understand it and doesn't want to.
Skepticism is all very well, and that is the best you can take away from the camp.
The prisoner learns to hate people.
He is afraid that he is a coward. He is afraid that he will suffer the same fate again. He is afraid of denunciations, of his neighbors, of everything a human being should not be afraid of.
He is morally crushed. His ideas of morality have changed and he hasn't noticed.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales

“All my life I have been unable to make myself call a swine a decent human being. And I believe it's better not to be alive at all if you can't say a word to anyone, or if you can only say the opposite of what you think.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

“The agnosticism I had upheld throughout my conscious life had not made me a Christian. But in the camps I had not seen better people than the believers. Depravity affected everyone's souls; only the believers held out.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

“Only one group of people kept their humanity in the camps, the believers, whether Orthodox or sectarians.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Stories

“But there was the American machine grease! Ah yes, the machine grease! The barrel was immediately attacked by a crowd of starving men who knocked out the bottom right on the spot with a stone. In their hunger, they claimed the machine grease was butter sent by Lend-Lease and there remained less than half a barrel by the time a sentry was sent to guard it and the camp administration drove off the crowd of starving, exhausted men with rifle-shots. The fortunate ones gulped down this Lend-Lease butter, not believing it was simply machine grease. After all, the healing American bread was also tasteless and also had that same metallic flavor. And everyone who had been lucky enough to touch the grease licked his fingers hours later, gulping down the minutest amounts of the foreign joy that tasted like young stone.”
― Varlam Shalamov, Kolyma Tales