"There is a sacred, secret line in loving……" — Anna Akhmatova
"There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross."
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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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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
— Jane Austen
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
— Luke Bryan
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