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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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If you can't give me love and peace,
Then give me bitter fame.
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Dread. Bottomless dread...
I am that shadow on the threshold
defending my remnant peace.
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This means that gravestones are fragile
and granite is softer than wax.
Absurd, absurd, absurd! From such absurdity
I shall soon turn gray
or change into another person.
Why do you beckon me with your hand?
For one moment of peace
I would give the peace of the tomb.
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If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
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Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.
Theodor Reik
Anna Akhmatova
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Born:
June 11, 1889
Died:
March 5, 1966
(aged 76)
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