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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI 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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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 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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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