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Marina Tsvetaeva
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“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.”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The House at Old Pimen, ch. 2 (1934).
“Freedom! A wanton slut on a profligate's breast!”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: You came out of a severe, well-proportioned church (1917).
“Есть книги настолько живые, но все боишься, что, пока не читал, она уже изменилась, как река — сменилась, пока жил — тоже жила, как река — шла и ушла. Никто дважды не вступал в ту же реку. А вступал ли кто дважды в ту же книгу?”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pushkin and Pugachev (1937)
“Тьмы низких истин нам дороже нас возвышающий обман.”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pushkin and Pugachev (1937).
“As for the war – it is like this: not Alexander Blok with Rainer Maria Rilke but a machine gun with a machine gun. Not Alexander Scriabin with Richard Wagner but a dreadnought with a dreadnought. Had Blok been killed I would have mourned over Blok (the best of Russia), had Rilke been killed I would have mourned over Rilke (the best of Germany) and none of the victories, either ours or theirs, would have consoled me.”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Мать и музыка, Moscow, 1997, p. 141, cited in M. Tsvetkova "Marina Tsvetaeva and Germany. A life long romance", p. 6