I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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 want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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