"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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Source : "The House at Old Pimen". Essay by Marina Tsvetaeva, ch. 2, 1934.

Marina Tsvetaeva

#Love Quotes #Passion Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Playing for England was one long roller-coaster: some ups and downs, but also quite a few moments when you're not really sure if you're enjoying the ride.”
“I will make Maggie safe. If the world burns because of that then so be it. Me and the kid will roast some marshmallows.”
“The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.”
“If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.”
“I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
“The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of â€˜adaptation through maladaptationâ€™ which is characteristic of our speciesâ€¦the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.”

Source : Anthony Storr (2015). “Solitude a Return to the Self”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”
“It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.”

Source : "First Visit to Armenia". Book by William Saroyan, 1935.

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