Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThere are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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