Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
RAINER MARIA RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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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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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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