“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.”

The House at Old Pimen, ch. 2 (1934).

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Russian poet and writer 1892–1941

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