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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

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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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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no pov...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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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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For sometime now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true that we do not know it; but is...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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There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.

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Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held ...more

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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all ot...more

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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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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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Even when the lights go out, even when someone says to me: "It's over---," even when from the stage a gray gust of emptiness drifts toward me,even whe...more

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I have often wondered whether especially those days when we are forced to remain idle are not precisely the days spend in the most profound activity. ...more

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For if we think of this existence of the individual as a larger or smaller room, it becomes clear that most people get to know only one corner of thei...more