Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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