Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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