Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAnd now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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.
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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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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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