Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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