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It slowly began to dawn on me that I had been staring at her for an impossible amount of time. Lost ...

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Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your ...

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Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet

In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love come to life again and fill it with maje...

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

To write the poem of the human conscience, were it only of a single man, were it only of the most in...

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I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately...

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What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tre...

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It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

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He showed the fineness of his nature by being kinder to me after that misunderstanding than before. ...

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What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blosso...

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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v...

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Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowled...

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In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

You are quite right, I changed my mind and do no longer speak of “radical evil.” … It is indeed my o...

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Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men...

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Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic pis...

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Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to b...

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