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Quotes from I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead — Anna Akhmatova

1889–1966 Russia

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I don't know if you're alive or dead.
Can you on earth be sought,
Or only when the sunsets fade
Be mourned serenely in my thought?

I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead (1915)

No-one was more cherished, no-one tortured
Me more, not
Even the one who betrayed me to torture,
Not even the one who caressed me and forgot.

I Don't Know If You're Alive Or Dead (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anna Akhmatova (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.