Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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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