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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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