Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
RAINER MARIA RILKEAll 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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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