Varlam Shalamov quotes

Varlam Shalamov quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.”
-- Varlam Shalamov

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“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

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“Blaire, This was my grandmotherâ€™s. My fatherâ€™s mother. She came to visit me before she passed away. I have fond memories of her visits and when she passed on she left this ring to me. In her will I was told to give it to the woman who completes me. She said it was given to her by my grandfather who passed away when my dad was just a baby but that sheâ€™d never loved another the way sheâ€™d loved him. He was her heart. You are mine. This is your something old. I love you, Rush”
“I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are.”

Source : Rosemary Altea (2008). “A Matter of Life and Death: Remarkable True Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.203, Penguin
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”
“Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible Â its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but Â the Enchantress of Numbers.”
“What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?”
“lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”
“I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.”
“We are all more capable than we think we are.”
“God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.123, 1895.

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