I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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The only journey is the one within.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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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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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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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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