The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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 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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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