"My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing."
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"Life is heavier than the weight of all things."
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"I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood."
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"Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart."
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"My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces."
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"Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces."
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"He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence."
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"If there is nothing you can share with other people, try to be close to Things, they will not abandon you; and the nights are still here and the winds that move through the trees and across many lands; everything in the world of Things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in."
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"I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]"
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"Be patient with all that is uncertain in your heart...do not search for answers, which will not be given: you will not be able to live them, and its importat to live everything."
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"I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
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"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being."
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"That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other."
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"There is time only to work slowly There is no time not to love"
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"I believe that nothing that is real can pass away."
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"Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past."
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"Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them."
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"The future must enter you long before it happens."
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"I am the rest between two notes which are somehow always in discord."
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"But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves."
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