Cruel Age Quotes by Anna Akhmatova

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• It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
• Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick…
• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will…
• All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
• This Cruel Age has deflected me...
• Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
• I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred…
• Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
• Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
• All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
• In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day…
• No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor of that…

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