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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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