Quotes by Konstantin Dmitrievici Balmont

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In the human soul there are two principles: the sense of measure and the sense of limitlessness. Ancient Hellas is the sense of measure. The pathos of the romantic and the creative fire of our time is the sense of boundlessness. We want to recreate the whole Earth, and we will recreate it, so that everyone on Earth will be beautiful strong and happy. This is quite possible, for Man is the Sun, and his feelings are planets.

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Right now, when we are breathing here, there are people who are suffocating.

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In souls there is all that is in heaven, and much more.

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There is an amazing state of mental tension, when a person is stronger, more intelligent, more beautiful than himself... Such states, which bring us closer to the transcendent worlds, everyone has, to somehow confirm the great principle of the ultimate equality of all souls. But to some these states visit perhaps once in their lives, to others they have a stronger or weaker influence, but almost constantly, and there are the chosen ones to whom it is given that every midnight they see ghosts, and at every sunrise to hear the commotion of new lives.

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Hysteria is an excessive sensitivity, and what in the world of medicine is a disease to be cured, in the world of art appears to be a bright flower.

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The feast of the heart is the joy of loving someone. The feast of the heart is to unexpectedly find a treasure. And it is also a celebration of the heart to find yourself in the other, to see the best in your heart reflected in the mirror of the other's heart. And tearing down the partition wall is a joy of the soul, sharp as a diamond, it is a true celebration of the heart.

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Each soul has many faces, in each man are hidden many people, and many of these, forming one person, must be thrown mercilessly into the fire. You have to be ruthless with yourself. Only then can you really achieve something.