Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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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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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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