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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere 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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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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