The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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