Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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 a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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