One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKELet life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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 a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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