Quotes From "Anna Akhmatova" By Anna Akhmatova

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For this gloomy beast within my breast - A heart. But the thing is, We've all had to learn not to sleep for three years. In the morning we shall find out Who has died in the night. Anna Akhmatova
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In those years only the dead smiled, Glad to be at rest: And Leningrad city swayed like A needless appendix to its prisons. Anna Akhmatova