“It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.”
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured three hundred hours in line before the implacable iron bars.
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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