If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love. (Boris Pasternak)

If it is so painful to love and to be charged with this electric current, how much more painful must it be to a woman and to be the current, and to inspire love.

Boris Pasternak

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