Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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