Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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