Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
RAINER MARIA RILKEA 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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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