The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA 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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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