The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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