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Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .


Anna Akhmatova

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ANNA AKHMATOVA You know,” he said, “I wish you could see this cave.”

“What’s it like?”
...
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Computer: "You touch the cave wall. It is moist."
Isaac: "Lick ...
JOHN GREEN Dave: ''Will you ever be happy Echo?''
Echo: ''I don’t know I haven’t tried it yet.''
...
JIM GOLDBERG Oh invade me with your scalding mouth,
search me if you like, with your nocturnal eyes,
bu...
PABLO NERUDA Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored sh...
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REX STOUT Anna: Ash, I don't have anything planned with my Mother... She's dead.

Ashley: What?
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GEORGE ELIOT Beauty is frightening," they will tell you —

Lazily you will arrange

A Spani...
ALEXANDER BLOK If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.
ANNA AKHMATOVA My shadow serves as the friend I crave.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common l...
ANNA AKHMATOVA It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, an...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this fest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this countryDecides to raise a memorial to me,I give my consent to this festiv...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I seem to myself, as in a dream,
An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endu...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country
Decides to raise a memorial to me,
I give my consent to t...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
ANNA AKHMATOVA The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is dest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The celebrations
Of secret nonmeetings are empty,
Unspoken conversations,
Unuttered w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together!
ANNA AKHMATOVA And this tenderness was not like
That which a certain poet
At the beginning of the century...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is go...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You invented me. There is no such earthly being,
Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From the...
ANNA AKHMATOVA A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to sto...
ANNA AKHMATOVA And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather no...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepare...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I defend
Not my voice, but my silence
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let my heiress have full rights,
Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.
Yet how slo...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No other looked into her secret eyes.
Nobody dared.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
ANNA AKHMATOVA As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Безвольно слабеют колени,
И кажется, нечем дышать... ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Eu, como um rio, Fui desviada por estes duros tempos. Deram-me uma vida interina. E ela pôs-se a fl...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can underst...
LEO TOLSTOY Short lives,

bouncing harmlessly as a cloth doll on grandma’s lap.

Small hel...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO in motion be like water... at rest, like a mirror. resound like the echo; be subtle, as though none...
TAO SAYING In a
few hours, she’ll see Anna for herself. She’ll see
her dressed in blood, her hair...
KENDARE BLAKE I play a character every day of my life, and I don't want to play a character as myself. They ca...
ANNA FRIEL Lunch started off tense after our heated moment. Thank goodness for Blake. Kai was warm toward him, ...
WENDY HIGGINS, SWEET PERIL ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else."

-Chris Rose, regarding l...
CHRIS ROSE Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never ...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT St. Clair: So did you enjoy the book?
Anna: I did. Did you?
St. Clair: I like the author's...
STEPHANIE PERKINS Anna Scott: Can I stay for a while?
William: You can stay forever.
NOTTING HILL You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
J.R. WARD God, you smell nice,” he whispered. “I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, l...
WENDY HIGGINS I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
ARTIE LANGE I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible
JANE AUSTEN Our sense of well-being depends to some extent on others regarding us as a You; our yearning for con...
DANIEL GOLEMAN He did not wring his hands, as do
Those witless men who dare
To try to rear the changeling...
OSCAR WILDE ...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal ...
JULIEN GRACQ When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to p...
PADMASREE WARRIOR My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and noctur...
NIGEL DENNIS It was like being in a cavern or a cave.
MICHAEL UNZUETA As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean:
"Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner conce...
JOHN GREEN Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Touching Echo felt like home.
KATIE MCGARRY She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy...
PATRICIA BRIGGS My mother was an angel,” I blurted. “A guardian angel.”
Kaidan began to chuckle.
“...
WENDY HIGGINS Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it."

- Vronksy {An...
LEO TOLSTOY In starlit nights I saw you,
So cruelly you kissed me.
Your lips a magic world,
Your ...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
BRUCE LEE Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in th...
EILEEN MYLES She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator"
"I like to think of myself more as an outcome engi...
J.R. WARD All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,...
G. K. CHESTERTON All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art,...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON As an actress, I really love people like Anna Magnani and Debra Winger. I also think there is nobody...
PENELOPE CRUZ Anna, my strong, terrifying Anna.
KENDARE BLAKE How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK And he whose soul is flat -- the sky
Will cave in on him by and by.
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet t...
HANS JONAS Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON see me now
your severed daughter
laughing our name into echo
all the world shall reme...
AUDRE LORDE I'm basically nocturnal.
B. D. WONG Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
HENRY ADAMS

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ANNA AKHMATOVA No foreign sky protected me, no stranger's wing shielded my face. I stand as witness to the common l...
ANNA AKHMATOVA It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
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An accidental guest in this dreadful body.
ANNA AKHMATOVA I should be proud to have my memory graced, but only if the monument be placed... here, where I endu...
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The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Now that you're there, where everything is known—tell me:
What else lived in that house beside...
ANNA AKHMATOVA If someone someday in this country
Decides to raise a memorial to me,
I give my consent to t...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This land, although not my native land,
Will be remembered forever.
And the sea's lightly ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.
ANNA AKHMATOVA The evening sky is gold and vast.
I’m soothed by April’s cool caress.
You’re late. T...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I myself, from the very beginning,
Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium
Or a ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is dest...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The celebrations
Of secret nonmeetings are empty,
Unspoken conversations,
Unuttered w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We are all carousers and loose women here;
How unhappy we are together!
ANNA AKHMATOVA And this tenderness was not like
That which a certain poet
At the beginning of the century...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All that I am hangs by a thread tonight
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Song falls silent, music is dumb,
But the air burns with their fragrance,
And white winter...
ANNA AKHMATOVA This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Flowers, cold from the dew,
And autumn's approaching breath,
I pluck for the warm, luxuria...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We don't know how to say goodbye,
We wander on, shoulder to shoulder
Already the sun is go...
ANNA AKHMATOVA You invented me. There is no such earthly being,
Such an earthly being there could never be. ANNA AKHMATOVA How the miracle of our meeting
Shone there and sang,
I didn't want to return
From the...
ANNA AKHMATOVA A land not mine, still
forever memorable,
the waters of its ocean
chill and fresh. ANNA AKHMATOVA Though you are three times more beautiful than angels,
Though you are the sister of the river w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I have a lot of work to do today;
I need to slaughter memory,
Turn my living soul to sto...
ANNA AKHMATOVA And you know, I agree to everything:
I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I know beginnings, I know endings too,
and life-in-death, and something else
I'd rather no...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Forgive me, that I manage badly,
Manage badly but live gloriously,
That I leave traces of ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA The word landed with a stony thud
Onto my still-beating breast.
Nevermind, I was prepare...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Your voice is wild and simple.
You are untranslatable
Into any one tongue.
ANNA AKHMATOVA You will hear thunder and remember me,
And think: she wanted storms. The rim
Of the sky ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I defend
Not my voice, but my silence
ANNA AKHMATOVA Let my heiress have full rights,
Live in my house, sing songs that I composed.
Yet how slo...
ANNA AKHMATOVA No other looked into her secret eyes.
Nobody dared.
ANNA AKHMATOVA Sunset in the ethereal waves:
I cannot tell if the day
is ending, or the world, or if
ANNA AKHMATOVA As the future ripens in the past,
so the past rots in the future --
a terrible festival of...
ANNA AKHMATOVA I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorde...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Безвольно слабеют колени,
И кажется, нечем дышать... ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Eu, como um rio, Fui desviada por estes duros tempos. Deram-me uma vida interina. E ela pôs-se a fl...
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ANNA HELD When our bodies are sick and people extend their sympathy, bring us soup, offer up solutions. When o...
ANNA AKANA My father is an acupuncturist, and the way he practices is very free. For me, he's like an artis...
ANNA MOUGLALIS Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.
ANNA QUINDLEN Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the ...
ANNA LINDH We need the UN, to deal with the threats to our common security from nuclear, chemical and biologica...
ANNA LINDH There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are...
ANNA QUINDLEN Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon sh...
ANNA LEE Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
ANNA LINDH A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.
ANNA HELD I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct t...
ANNA KENDRICK I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs...
ANNA KENDRICK There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn yo...
ANNA QUINDLEN It's very important to take risks. I think that research is very important, but in the end you h...
ANNA WINTOUR Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
ANNA QUINDLEN Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine,...
ANNA WINTOUR The right to happiness is fundamental.
ANNA PAVLOVA We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.
ANNA FREUD I was never the class clown or anything like that. When I was growing up and doing theatre in Seattl...
ANNA FARIS It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
ANNA WINTOUR There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.
ANNA GODBERSEN Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at...
ANNA GODBERSEN I just adore Kate Winslet. I love her because you're never aware of all the stuff that's goi...
ANNA TORV The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; th...
ANNA QUINDLEN You can relax more when you're playing a silly character than when you're playing a really r...
ANNA KENDRICK Nobody pulls a prank like George Clooney.
ANNA KENDRICK The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile...
ANNA KENDRICK I'm not a gambler, let's just say that, nor have I ever been a dealer at a casino.
ANNA GUNN