Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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