"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
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"Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure."
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"What batters you becomes your strength."
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"I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is."
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"And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life."
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"Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance."
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"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"
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"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
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"you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret"
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"If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
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"Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition."
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"Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings."
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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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"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world."
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"To love is good, too: love being difficult. 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. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things."
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"This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us."
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"Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living."
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"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
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"Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it."
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