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 RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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 quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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