I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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More 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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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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