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.
RAINER MARIA RILKESurely 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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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