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QUOTATION:The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words.
ATTRIBUTION:Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966), Russian poet. “Two Poems,” no. 2, l. 1 (1956), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965).
 
 
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