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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The only journey is the one within.
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