The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEPerhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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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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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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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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