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If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what it has missed. For it has failed to see whither ...more

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…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over th...more

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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 ...more

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Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

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And those, who come together in the night and are twined in quivering pleasure, are performing a serious work and are heaping up sweetness, depth and ...more

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...In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to strive after any other being, not to relate the sufferi...more

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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

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How should we be able to forget those myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into prince...more

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We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

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If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as...more

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn int...more

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How they are all about, these gentlemenIn chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,Like night around their order's star and gemAnd growing ever darker...more