"What is the main thing in love? to……" — Marina Tsvetaeva
"What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden - the passion for the revealed."
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Marina Tsvetaeva
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18 Quotes by Marina Tsvetaeva
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My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my…
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How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl…
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Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?
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However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest…
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No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?
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And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it.
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