The only journey is the one within.
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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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