Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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