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All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
Anna Akhmatova
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Anna Akhmatova
Age: 76 †
Born: 1889
Born: June 23
Died: 1966
Died: March 5
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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We are all carousers and loose women here How unhappy we are together!
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