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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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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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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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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.

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Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too.

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Again and again, however we know the landscape of loveand the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,and the frighteningly silent abyss int...more

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we want it visible to showwhen even the most visible joy will reveal itselfonly when we have transformed it within.there’s nowhere, my love, the wo...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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Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

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Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to y...more

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That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

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O dieses ist das Tier, das es nicht giebt.Sie wußtens nicht und habens jeden Falls– sein Wandeln, seine Haltung, seinen Hals,bis in des stillen Blicke...more