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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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