The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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