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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEEverything 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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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