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.
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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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