One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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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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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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