| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 3183 |
| QUOTATION: | The triumphs of a mysterious non-meeting are desolate ones; unspoken phrases, silent words. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anna Akhmatova (18891966), Russian poet. Two Poems, no. 2, l. 1 (1956), trans. by Dimitri Obolensky (1965). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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