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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… - Marina Tsvetaeva
" "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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About Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (8 October 1892, Moscow – 31 August 1941, Yelabuga, Tatarstan) was a Russian poet and writer.
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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetayeva
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Marina Tsvetajeva
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Marina I. Cvetaeva
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Marina Iwanowna Zwetajewa
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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 (the best of Russia), had Rilke been killed I would have mourned over Rilke (the best of Germany) and none of the victories, either ours or theirs, would have consoled me.
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