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.
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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each 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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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