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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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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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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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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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This is the creature there has never been.They never knew it, and yet, none the less,they loved the way it moved, its suppleness,its neck, its very ga...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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I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

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Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessl...more

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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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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