This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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.
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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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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