The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA 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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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 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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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