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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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