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.
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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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I 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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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