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God created his marvelous world in a week.
A woman is a hundred worlds. With one breath,
How can I become a woman in just one day?
Yesterday a hussar—in spurs and sword.
Today, a lace and satin angel.
And tomorrow, perhaps, who knows?

— Marina Tsvetaeva Priklyuchenie [An Adventure (1923)

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Harold B. Segel, Twentieth-century Russian Drama (Columbia UP, 1979), p. 116

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