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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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