There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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