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 RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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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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I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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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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The only journey is the one within.
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