Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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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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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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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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The ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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The only journey is the one within.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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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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A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them – they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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