No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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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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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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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