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“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 of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love”
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
― The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
“Crime, too, means solitude, even if a thousand people join together to commit it.”
― Caligula and Three Other Plays
― Caligula and Three Other Plays
“You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to stone
Then teach myself to live again.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
“I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”
― The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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