The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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