Taras Shevchenko Quotes

• It’s terrible to lie in chains,
  To rot in dungeon deep,
  But it’s still worse, when you are free
  To sleep, and sleep, and sleep.

  Taras Shevchenko

  Lying, Sleep, Dungeons

  Taras Shevchenko (1964). “Selected works; poetry and prose”

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• All has gone to rest, and I don't know whether I'm alive or will live or whether I'm rushing like this through the world for I'm not longer weeping or laughing

  Taras Shevchenko

  Rushing, Laughing, Gone

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