Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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 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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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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