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.
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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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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 quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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