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“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 , had Rilke been killed I would have mourned over Rilke and none of the victories, either ours or theirs, would have consoled me.”

“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 overpowers the knowing . The passion for the hidden — the passion for the revealed.”

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"“But now we come upon another objection, which I judge will be the last you can raise. You will say, I suspect, that this world of freedom, self-equipped for sin, is indeed a world which "lieth in wic…"

— George Holmes Howison

Philosophy1834–1916

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"The heroism of our soldiers is especially inspiring because most of them were in their 20s, inexperienced in the art of warfare, who answered the call of the motherland with unflinching courage - so v…"

— Francis Escudero

Politics1969

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"There exists a most ancient saying, "Where women are revered and safeguarded, prosperity reigns and the gods rejoice." The New Epoch... will bring the renaissance of woman. The Epoch of Maitreya is th…"

— Helena Roerich

Philosophy1879–1955

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