“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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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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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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