Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI 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 only journey is the one within.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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