I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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