Anna Akhmatova Quotes

The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.

Anna Akhmatova

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• The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Envy