Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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