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Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

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

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Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.

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It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

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A complete sharing between two people is an impossibility and whenever it seems, nevertheless, to exist, it is a narrowing, a mutual agreement which r...more

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I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

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You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of light for everyone,and then no ...more

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It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simplicity enough to believe; that...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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Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you,without a mouth I can swear y...more

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Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

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You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to reco...more

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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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How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.