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1. "A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
2. "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?" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
3. "For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
4. "Tonight - I am alone in the night,a homeless and sleepless nun!Tonight I hold all the keys to thisthe only capital cityand lack of sleep guides me on my path.You are so lovely, my dusky Kremlin!Tonight I put my lips to the breastof the whole round and warring earth.Now I feel hair - like fur - standing on end:the stifling winds blow straight into my soul.Tonight I feel compassion for everyone,those who are pitied, along with those who are kissed." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
5. "Io posso amare solo la persona che in una giornata di primavera a me preferirà una betulla." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
6. "Meanings are translatable. Words are untranslatable… More briefly – a word is translatable, its sound is not." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
7. "Your name is a -- bird in my handa piece of -- ice on the tongueone single movement of the lips.Your name is: five signs,a ball caught in flight, asilver bell in the moutha stone, cast in a quiet poolmakes the splash of your name, andthe sound is in the clatter ofnight hooves, loud as a thunderclapor it speaks straight into my forehead,shrill as the click of a cocked gun.Your name -- how impossible, itis a kiss in the eyes onmotionless eyelashes, chill and sweet.Your name is a kiss of snowa gulp of icy spring water, blueas a dove. About your name is: sleep." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
8. "I have two foes in the world, twins inextricably interrelated -- the hunger of the hungry and the glut of the glutted!" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
9. "The forbidden cabinet. The forbidden fruit. That fruit is—a volume, a huge blue-lilac volume with a gold inscription slantwise: Collected Works of A.S. Pushkin. I read the fat Pushkin in the cabinet with my nose in the book and on the shelf, almost in darkness and almost right up against it and even a little bit suffocated by his weight that came right into the throat, and almost blinded by the nearness of the tiny letters. I read Pushkin right into the chest and right into the brain." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
10. "Bullets they took from us, they took our riflesMinerals they took, and comrades too:But while our mouths have spittle in themThe whole country is still armed." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
11. "for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a breaking in" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
12. "How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
13. "Old men, old men, old men. Medals, medals, medals. Not a brow without a furrow, not a breast without a star. My brother and husband are uniquely-young here. The grouping of young Grand Dukes doesn't count because a grouping is just what they are: a marble bas-relief. Today the whole old-age of Russia seems to have flowed into this place in homage to the eternal youth of Greece. A living lesson of history and philosophy: this is what time does with people, this is what it does--with gods. This is what time does with a man, this is what (a glance at the statues) art does. And, the last lesson: this is what time does with a man; this is what a man does with time. But because of my youth I don't think about that, I feel only a cold shudder. ("The Opening of the Museum")" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
14. "And soon all of us will sleep under the earth, we who never let each other sleep above it." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
15. "What is this gypsy passion for separation, thisreadiness to rush off when we've just met?My head rests in my hands as Irealize, looking into the nightthat no one turning over our letters hasyet understood how completely andhow deeply faithless we are, which isto say: how true we are to ourselves." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
16. "Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.?In the cradle a child is screaming.?An old man sits over his death, and anyone?young enough talks to his love, breathes?into her lips, looks into her eyes." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
17. "I opened my veins. Unstoppablylife spurts out with no remedy.Now I set out bowls and plates.Every bowl will be shallow.Every plate will be small.And overflowing their rims,into the black earth, to nourishthe rushes unstoppablywithout cure, gushespoetry ..." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
18. "However much you feed a wolf, it always looks to the forest. We are all wolves of the dense forest of Eternity." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
19. "Wings are freedom only when they are wide open in flight. On one's back they are a heavy weight." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
20. "One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
21. "After a sleepless night the body gets weaker,It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's.Just like a seraph you smile to peopleAnd arrows moan in the slow arteries.After a sleepless night the arms get weakerAnd deeply equal to you are the friend and foe.Smells like Florence in the frost, and in eachSudden sound is the whole rainbow.Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's goldenNear the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparkedThis brilliant likeness - and from the dark nightOnly just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
22. "What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
23. "I have two enemies in all the world, Two twins, inseparably fused:The hunger of the hungry and the fullness of the full." ~ Marina Tsvetaeva
24. "Don't you know no one can escapethe power of creatures reaching outwith breath alone?" ~ Marina Tsvetaeva

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At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming."
Author: Aprilynne Pike

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Night
Less
Low
Sleep
Here
Whole
Hole
Hey
Read
Thou
Pen
Owe
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She
Open
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