I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEHe 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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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 ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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