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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

“Love us when we are dirty, not when we are clean. Anyone will love us when we’re clean.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich

“I do not wish to listen to people denouncing their parents.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs

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