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.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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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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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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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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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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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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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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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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The only journey is the one within.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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