I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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