"My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly."

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But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

— Eduard Shevardnadze