No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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