One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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