Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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