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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEIt is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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