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“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
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“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“Death will be my supreme protest against a world of tears and blood.”
― Caligula and Three Other Plays
― Caligula and Three Other Plays
“Rising from the past, my shadow
Is running in silence to meet me.”
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Is running in silence to meet me.”
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“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
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