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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEI am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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