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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, 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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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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I have never been aware before how many faces there are. There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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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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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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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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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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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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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
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