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 RILKELive your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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 the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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