Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (Russian: Варла́м Ти́хонович Шала́мов; June 18, 1907 – January 17, 1982), baptized as Varlaam, was a Russian writer, journalist, poet and Gulag survivor.
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.
A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.
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