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

“Art destroys silence.”
― Dmitri Shostakovich, Testimony: The Memoirs

“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

“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