One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
RAINER MARIA RILKEBelieve that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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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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