Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe 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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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