I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEMore belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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 am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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