Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEWho has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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