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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Art Artist Been Ever Great Have Knowm Danger Made
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
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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Alone Know Secret Thing Want
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Child Earth Know Like Poem Return Spring
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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Believe Feel Greatest Part Talk
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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Another Being Difficult Human Love One Perhaps Task
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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Against Glow Make Possible Seide Sky Succeed Thing Whole Wonderful
The only journey is the one within.
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Horney One Only Within
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
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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Being Each Other Face Human More Person Quantity Several
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
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Anything Begin Tremendous Violence
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
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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Ask Away Beginner Classic Deal Difficult Life Most Right
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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Attack Love Measel Older Worse
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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All Begin Blood Mind Soaring
I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Able Begin Simply Skip
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
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
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
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Along Answer Distant Know Life Now Perhaps Question Some

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