It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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