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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

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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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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, 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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Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

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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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Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

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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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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

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All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.

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More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed.

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