"Wild honey smells of freedom The dust -……" — Anna Akhmatova
"Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing."
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Anna Akhmatova
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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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More Dust Quotes
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature;…
— Diane Ackerman
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I'm full of dust and guitars.
— Syd Barrett
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There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust…
— Standing Bear
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The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust…
— Annie Besant
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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
— Ambrose Bierce
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You either make dust or eat dust.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.
— Lord Byron
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We need responsible regulations, not regulations that have gone wild. For example, the EPA has a rule that is going…
— Herman Cain
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Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances,…
— Italo Calvino
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Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the…
— George Carlin
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
— Thomas Carlyle
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