"What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves."

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Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

Marina Tsvetaeva

#Passion Quotes #Night Quotes #Hands Quotes

“There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.”
“Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.”
“Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.”
“I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.”
“If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.55
“Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?”
“I'd like to leave America for someplace where they would not know a word of English and I might be understood.”
“If Christians would have the same faith in their God that non-Christians have in a mere materialistic idea, 'Thy Kingdom come' would shortly be a reality in this world of sorrow and travail.”

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