I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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 purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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