Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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