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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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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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Another Being Difficult Human Love One Perhaps Task
Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Apart Before Curtain Fall Heart Own Sat Scenery
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
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All Begin Blood Mind Soaring
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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Bear Creator Deepest Experience Feminine Reciever
I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
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Able Begin Simply Skip
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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Between Bond Highest Hold People Protect Solitude Two
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Beautiful Brave Dragon Live Once Perhaps Priceless See Wait
Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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Breath Different Sing Truly
More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.
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Bed Belong Leg Marriage More
There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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Good Marriage May Pleasant
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue.
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Accept Being Close Continue Human Infinite Once Realization
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Deep Everything Help Helpless Perhaps Something Terrible War
One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Action Against Hold Laid More One Some
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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Bloom Color Everything Heart Instead Night Shriek Voice
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
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Blame Creator Daily Enough Poet Poor Poverty Richer
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Child Earth Know Like Poem Return Spring

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