Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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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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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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