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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOne had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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