“As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is.”
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“Like a moth to a flame
Burned by the fire.
My love is blind
Can't you see my desire?”
That's the Way Love Goes
janet. (1993)

Quote in a letter to his wife Sophie Küppers (February 1926):' (letter 8-2-1926, Lissitzky-Küppers), Archive van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1990
1926 - 1941

As quoted in Remarks of Famous People (1965) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 23

Richard Friedenthal, (1963, p. 260).
1930s, "Conversations avec Picasso," 1934–35