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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Accept Being Close Continue Human Infinite Once Realization
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Good Marriage May Pleasant
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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Any Danger Experience Further Sure Through
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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Amotion Distort Emotion Gather Impure Pure Seize Side
I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Able Begin Simply Skip
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Bear Creator Deepest Experience Feminine Reciever
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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Blame Creator Daily Enough Poet Poor Poverty Richer
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Apart Before Curtain Fall Heart Own Sat Scenery
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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Another Dog Humble Interest Matter Mirror Objectivity Reproduce Think Unquestion
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Action Against Hold Laid More One Some
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Believe Feel Greatest Part Talk
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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Course Grown Man Many Matter Old Ought Tell Thing
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Consist Each Greet Love Other Solitude Touch Two
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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Between Bond Highest Hold People Protect Solitude Two
The only journey is the one within.
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Horney One Only Within
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Defeat Greater Life Purpose Thing

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