No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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