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.
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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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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 no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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