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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThis is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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 only journey is the one within.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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