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"A big heap of coal was piled. Two zeks were digging into it, eagerly seeking something there. When they found it, they tried it in their teeth. Then they sat themselves down and each ate a similar black-gray lump. "What are you eating there, fellows?" "It's sea clay. It doesn't do any good, but it doesn't do harm either. And if you add a kilo of it a day to your rations, it's as if you had really eaten." — Jul 22, 2025 03:10AM
"A big heap of coal was piled. Two zeks were digging into it, eagerly seeking something there. When they found it, they tried it in their teeth. Then they sat themselves down and each ate a similar black-gray lump. "What are you eating there, fellows?" "It's sea clay. It doesn't do any good, but it doesn't do harm either. And if you add a kilo of it a day to your rations, it's as if you had really eaten." — Jul 22, 2025 03:10AM
“In broad daylight it's terrible for a man to face his death; but when you're asleep it ought to be easy enough....”
― And Quiet Flows the Don
― And Quiet Flows the Don
“If bones could freeze, then the brain could also be dulled and the soul could freeze over. And the soul shuddered and froze- perhaps to remain frozen forever.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
“I believed a person could consider himself a human being as long as he felt totally prepared to kill himself, to interfere in his own biography. It was this awareness that gave me the will to live. I checked myself — frequently — and felt I had the strength to die, and thus remained alive.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
“Kolyma is Auschwitz without the ovens.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
“We realized that life, even the worst life, consists of an alternation of joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and there was no need to fear the failures more than the successes.”
― Kolyma Tales
― Kolyma Tales
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