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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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