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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick…
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will…
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All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
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This Cruel Age has deflected me...
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred…
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Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
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Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day…
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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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Forgive me, that I manage badly, Manage badly but live gloriously, That I leave traces of myself in my songs, That I…
— Anna Akhmatova
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Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood;…
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