The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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