Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere 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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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