Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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 more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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The only journey is the one within.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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