The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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He 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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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 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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Perhaps 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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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