How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet. (Anna Akhmatova)

How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.

Anna Akhmatova

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