“We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.”

—  Anna Akhmatova

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

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Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

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