No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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