Nadezhda Mandelstam Quotes

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The fear that goes with the writing of verse has nothing in common with the fear one experiences in the presence of the secret police. Our mysterious awe in the face of existence itself is always overridden by the more primitive fear of violence and destruction.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Mandelstam

Born: October 30, 1899

Died: December 29, 1980 (aged 81)

Bio: Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam was a Russian writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia.

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