Rainer Maria Rilke

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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 they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

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The only journey is the one within.

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And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

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