Leningrad Quotes

• And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Skirts, Eyelids, Streets

  "Deathless". Book by Catherynne M. Valente, March 29, 2011.

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• The duality of St Petersburg and Leningrad remains. They are not even on speaking terms.

  Joseph Wechsberg

  Duality, Term, Remains

  Joseph Wechsberg (1977). “In Leningrad”, Doubleday Books

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• And so my child and I came to this place to meet him eye to eye and face to face. He made my daughter laugh, then we embraced. We never knew what friends we had, until we came to Leningrad.

  Billy Joel

  Daughter, Children, Eye

  Song: Leningrad, Album: Storm Front, 1989

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• Oh,to be walking through Leningrad white night after white night, the dawn to dusk all smelting together like platinum ore, Tatiana thought, turning away to the wall, again to the wall, the wall, as ever. Alexander, my nights, my days, my every thought. You will fall away from me in just a while, won't you, and I'll be whole again, and I will go on and feel for someone else, the way everyone does. But my innocence is forever gone.

  Paullina Simons

  Wall, Fall, Night

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• Leningrad ... is a city with the gift of timelessness.

  Jan Morris

  Russia, Cities, Timelessness

  Jan Morris (2011). “A Writer's World”, p.185, Faber & Faber

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• [State] finds [frontier] either with the aid of force, as in 1914, when Germany invaded Belgium in order to deal a blow against France or it "borrows" a frontier, such as Germany did with regard to Latvia, for instance, in 1918, in attempting to break through to Leningrad across Latvia.

  José Stalin

  Blow, Order, Break Through

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• If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

  Glenn Frey

  Nightlife, Politics, Awful

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• Falling in love with you in the Summer Garden in the white nights in Leningrad is the moment that propels me through life.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Falling In Love, Love You

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• Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and can disappear, if not in reality, then in the imagination of the poet creating a myth, a mythical tradition on the grounds of his secret experience.

  Nina Berberova

  New York, Cutting, Reality

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• The development and deployment of drones and Cruise missiles involves the continuing development of the vision machine. Research on Cruise missiles is intrinsically linked to the development of vision machines. The aim, of course, is not only to give vision to a machine but, as in the case of the Cruise missiles that were aimed at Leningrad and Moscow, also to enable a machine to deploy radar readings and pre-programmed maps as it follows its course towards its target.

  Paul Virilio

  Reading, Giving, Deployment

  Fuente: ctheory.net

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• Es un poco difícil evitar meter tanto la guerra como la política, en el sentido de que ambas entran en la actividad, pero por separado. Mi idea básica es hacer una gran película de amor ambientada en el infierno de 1942. En ese momento, el infierno era Leningrado. Debajo de todo esto, por supuesto, hay una película sobre la disensión entre los dos países más importantes del mundo, Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética. Creo que en este momento es imprescindible hablar de cooperación en lugar del rencor, el odio y la competencia entre naciones.

  Sergio Leone

  País, Guerra, Pensamiento

  Fuente: www.americansuburbx.com

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• I was 12 in 1989 during perestroika, when my mother found a program that sent me to Russia to study art in the forests outside of Leningrad.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Mother, Art, Russia

  Fuente: www.aaa.si.edu

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• En los terribles años del terror de Yezhov pasé diecisiete meses haciendo cola a la salida de la prisión de Leningrado. Un día alguien entre la multitud me identificó... y me preguntó en un susurro... "¿Puedes describir esto?" Y yo dije: "Yo puedo."

  Anna Ajmátova

  Years, Waiting In Line, One Day

  Anna Andreevna Ajmátova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). "Избранные Стихи", p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Each day brought just another minute of the things they could not leave behind. Jane Barrington sitting on the train coming back to Leningrad from Moscow, holding on to her son, knowing she had failed him, crying for Alexander, wanting another drink, and Harold, in his prison cell, crying for Alexander, and Yuri Stepanov on his stomach in the mud in Finland, crying for Alexander, and Dasha in the truck, on the Ladoga ice, crying for Alexander, and Tatiana on her knees in the Finland marsh, screaming for Alexander, and Anthony, alone with his nightmares, crying for his father.

  Paullina Simons

  Padre, Hijo, Saber

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• We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Garden, June

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• During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

  Anna Ajmátova

  Blue, Numbness, Years

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