Dmitri Shostakovich Quotes on Memory
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I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.
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The majority of my symphonies are tombstones.
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'What you have in your head, put it down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.'
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'I shall never forget that event - a boy was brutally killed by a Cossack with his sabre.'