The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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