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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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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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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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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