This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.
RAINER MARIA RILKEOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the 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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
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The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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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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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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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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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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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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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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