Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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