More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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