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

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Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what they're dealing with. No, they do not. They've ne...more

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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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The one so loved that a single lyreraised more lament than lamenting women ever did;and that from the lament a world arose in whicheverything was ther...more

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

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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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Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almo...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