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.
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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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