"If I can't have love, if I can't……" — Anna Akhmatova
"If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory."
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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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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a…
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Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
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I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.
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Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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