I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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