The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
RAINER MARIA RILKEFor one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.
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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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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 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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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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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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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