"I know beginnings, I know endings too, and……" — Anna Akhmatova
"I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now."
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Anna Akhmatova
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51 Quotes by Anna Akhmatova
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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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Hands, matches, an ashtray. A ritual beautiful and bitter.
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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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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs…
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Good seasons start with good beginnings.
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies…
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For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a…
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Running has taught me, perhaps more than anything else, that there's no reason to fear starting lines... or other new…
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New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
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