I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
RAINER MARIA RILKEThe 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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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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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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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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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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Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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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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The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.
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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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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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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
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