There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The only journey is the one within.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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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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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 future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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