For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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A 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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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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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