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.
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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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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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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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 deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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