All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIf 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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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 no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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