The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
RAINER MARIA RILKESpring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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The only journey is the one within.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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