This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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There 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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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