man must answer for everything, particularly for his own so… - Nadezhda Mandelstam

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man must answer for everything, particularly for his own soul.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

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About Nadezhda Mandelstam

Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam (Russian: Надежда Яковлевна Мандельштам, IPA: [nɐˈdʲeʐdə ˈjakəvlʲɪvnə mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam]; née Khazina [Хазина]; 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1899 – 29 December 1980) was a Russian Jewish writer and educator, and the wife of the poet Osip Mandelstam who died in 1938 in a transit camp to the gulag of Siberia.

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Alternative Names: Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelstam • Nadezhda Mandelshtam • Nadezhda Yakovlevna Mandelshtam • Nadezhda Khazina • Nadezhda Yakovlevna Khazina • Nadezhda Iakovlevna Mandel’shtam

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I am even now constantly tormented by the thought of those years of life we were not allowed to live. I am always wondering what they would have been like if we had not been cheated of them. (28: Stages in My Life)

It is true that "forced labor" is too mild a term for the camps of the twentieth century and that nobody in the world would actually want to go into a camp or gas chamber.

poetry is an elusive thing that can neither be hidden nor locked away.

man must answer for everything, particularly for his own soul. - Nadezhda Mandelstam

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