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21 " Only a simple black pencil will do for making a notation of a benchmark. Ink will run, be dissolved by the tree sap, be washed away by rain, dew, fog, and snow. Nothing as artificial as ink will do for recording eternity and immortality. Graphite is carbon that has been subjected to enormous pressure for millions of years and that might have become coal or diamonds. Instead, however, it has been transformed into something more precious than a diamond; it has become a pencil that can record all that it has seen… A pencil is a greater miracle than a diamond, although the chemical make-up of graphite and diamond is identical. "
― Varlam Shalamov , Kolyma Tales
22 " Kolyma is Auschwitz without the ovens. "
23 " Я вспомнил старую северную легенду о боге, который был еще ребенком,когда создавал тайгу. Красок было немного, краски были по-ребячески чисты,рисунки просты и ясны, сюжеты их немудреные. После, когда бог вырос, стал взрослым, он научился вырезать причудливыеузоры листвы, выдумал множество разноцветных птиц. Детский мир надоел богу,и он закидал снегом таежное свое творенье и ушел на юг навсегда. Такговорила легенда. "