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Love Quotes by Anna Akhmatova
- It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
- All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
- This Cruel Age has deflected me...
- Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.
- There is a sacred, secret line in loving which attraction and even passion cannot cross.
- I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom…
- If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.
- That was when the ones who smiled Were the dead, glad to be at rest.
- You do not know just what you've been forgiven.
- I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now.
- My shadow serves as the friend I crave
- The celebrations Of secret nonmeetings are empty, Unspoken conversations, Unuttered words. Glances that don't intersect Don't know where to come to rest. And only the…
- Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous,…
- If you were music I would listen to you ceaselessly       And my low spirits would brighten up.
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- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento