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Anna Akhmatova

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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children’s children, pure on their tongues, and free.

Anna Akhmatova

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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 hours
in line before the implacable iron bars.

Anna Akhmatova

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If you can’t give me love and peace,
Then give me bitter fame.

Anna Akhmatova

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In the fearful years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months in prison queues in Leningrad. One day somebody "identified" me . . . and whispered in my ear . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "Yes, I can."

Anna Akhmatova

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In those years only the dead smiled, glad to be at rest.

Anna Akhmatova

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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 somebody in the crowd identified me… and asked me in a whisper… “Can you describe this?” And I said: “I can.”

Anna Akhmatova

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