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> [“On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise of Time and happened to have been saved by M.'s father. Most of them later perished…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/on-the-bottom-shelf-m-kept-the-books-from-his-childhood-days-pushkin/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

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## More by Nadezhda Mandelstam

> [The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/the-only-good-life-is-one-in-which-there-is-no-need-for-miracles/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

> [“On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/on-the-bottom-shelf-m-kept-the-books-from-his-childhood-days-pushkin/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

> [“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/and-after-his-death-or-even-before-it-perhaps-he-lived-on-in-camp/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

> [I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/i-decided-it-is-better-to-scream-silence-is-the-real-crime-against/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

> [“When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nadezhda-mandelstam/when-a-bull-is-being-lead-to-the-slaughter-it-still-hopes-to-break/)

[Nadezhda Mandelstam](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nadezhda-mandelstam/)

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