The only journey is the one within.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely 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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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