If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festivityBut only on this condition - do not build itBy the sea where I was born,I have severed my last ties with the sea...
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That was a time when only the dead could smile.
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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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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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