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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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She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hal...more

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Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know every bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are.

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Loving isn't merging, surrendering, uniting with the other. Rather, it's a kind of solitude; of profound aloneness. It induces you to mature and becom...more

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If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull world, that’s because you’re not...more

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And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your young existence! So great w...more

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There is only one way: Go within. Search for the cause, find the impetus that bids you write. Put it to this test: Does it stretch out its roots in th...more

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In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spread...more

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You, God, who live next door--If at times, through the long night, I trouble youwith my urgent knocking--this is why: I hear you breathe so seldom.I k...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