Gabriele Petkevičaité-Bité

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Overview

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Gabriele Petkevičaité-Bité born Puziniškis estate, Panevėžys, Russian Lithuania March 16, 1861 (d. 1943). Lithuanian writer. First chair of national constituent assembly which achieved peace and recognition from Russia and arbitration of Latvia boundary, 1920. Opposed World War I, which she feared would never end.

Quotations

“But those are not apple-blossoms which are looking at me! They are thousands and thousands of eyes! Living human eyes! But perishing! The moisture of great tears is trembling yet in them. . . And this requires no explanation. Those are the eyes of those being killed at the fronts.” (Joseph Canning, Power, Violence, ch. 11; photo wikipedia)