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Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu

“The tortures to which people subjected the dying in an attempt to fulfill their duties to life!”
- Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu,
- 1923, in Margaret R. Higonnet, ed., Lines of Fire: Women Writers of World War (1999)

Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, Romanian novelist

(1876 - 1955)