Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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