"Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and…" — Anna Akhmatova
"Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter."
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51 Quotes by Anna Akhmatova
Anna Akhmatova has 51 quotes on this site.
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide…
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I…
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All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
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This Cruel Age has deflected me...
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Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.
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I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endured…
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Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad.…
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No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common lot survivor…
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There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.
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More Ashtray Quotes
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Your clothes smell heavily of clothing. Your den is filled with low-hanging palls of fresh air. The only rattle in…
— Robert Breault
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a…
— Raul Julia
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I think the more the listener can contribute to the song, the better; the more they become part of the…
— John Prine
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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But…
— Salman Rushdie
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There is nothing more agreeable than having a place where one can throw on the floor as many cigar butts…
— Fidel Castro
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Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than…
— Gunter Grass
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I actually did ponder doing the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie thing and get a kid from Ethiopia. But you know, I…
— Zach Braff
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Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.
— Helen Rowland
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I have a soft spot for Joe Biden. I like him. But he’s dumb as an ashtray.
— Roger Ailes
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I simply cannot imagine why anyone would eat something slimy served in an ashtray.
— Henry Beard
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British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!
— Jimmy Carr
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The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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