Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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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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