This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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