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.
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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Surely all art is the result of one’s having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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