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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 protection.


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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.

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Freedom! A wanton slut on a profligate's breast!

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Love is a stepmother, and no mother.
Then expect no justice and mercy from her.


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In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews.

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It crawls, the underground snake,
crawls, with its load of people.
And each one has his
newspaper, his skin
disease; a twitch of chewing;
newspaper caries.
Masticators of gum,
readers of newspapers.


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Born: October 8, 1892
Died: August 31, 1941 (aged 48)
Bio: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it.
Known for:
  1. Art in the light of conscience
  2. A captive spirit
  3. Earthly signs
  4. In the inmost hour of the soul

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