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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.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Able Begin Simply Skip
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Another Being Difficult Human Love One Perhaps Task
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Good Marriage May Pleasant
I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Alone Know Secret Thing Want
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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Ask Away Beginner Classic Deal Difficult Life Most Right
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Bed Belong Leg Marriage More
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Beautiful Brave Dragon Live Once Perhaps Priceless See Wait
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Along Answer Distant Know Life Now Perhaps Question Some
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Defeat Greater Life Purpose Thing
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Art Artist Been Ever Great Have Knowm Danger Made
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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Amotion Distort Emotion Gather Impure Pure Seize Side
The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Other Preparation Proof Test Ultimate Work
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Anything Begin Tremendous Violence
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Breath Different Sing Truly
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Apart Before Curtain Fall Heart Own Sat Scenery
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Child Earth Know Like Poem Return Spring

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