I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIf 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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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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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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