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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (October 9, 1892 August 31, 1941) was a Russian poet and writer..

"A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths."

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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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"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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"There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?"

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