"Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?"
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"Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible."
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"To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need."
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"Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.)."
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"Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out."
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"Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang."
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"Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame."
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"And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?"
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"I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill."
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"Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us."
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"Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly."
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"Draw near to Nature. Then try like some first human being to say what you see and experience and love and lose."
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"Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
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"No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write, find out wether it spreading out its root in the deepest places of your heart...Delve into yourself for a deep answer"
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"The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing."
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"a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness. Here all is distance, there it was breath. After the first home the second one seems draughty and strangely sexed."
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"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate."
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"Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature."
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"And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?"
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"It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer."
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