I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
RAINER MARIA RILKENo great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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 is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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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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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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