There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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