This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKELove is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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