I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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