Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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