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“It makes you think the best way to hold on to something is to pay no attention to it. The things you love too much must perish. You have to treat everything with irony, especially the things you hold dear. There's more of a chance then that they'll survive.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs

“Football is the ballet of the masses.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

“Most people are average, neither black nor white, but grey. A dirty shade of grey. To the best of my ability I tried to write about these people, about their completely average, commonplace dreams and hopes, and about their suspicious tendency towards murder.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

“When I hear about someone else's pain, I feel pain too. i feel pain for everything - for people and animals.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs