“When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been able to pass on the knowledge that this never happens and that from the slaughterhouse there… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles. — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“On the bottom shelf M. kept the books from his childhood days: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, the Iliad - they are described in The Noise… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“And after his death - or even before it, perhaps - he lived on in camp legend as a demented old man of seventy… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity. — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“When a bull is being lead to the slaughter, it still hopes to break loose and trample its butchers. Other bulls have not been… — Nadezhda Mandelstam Copy Share Image
