"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night."
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"Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
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"Wishes are recollections coming from the future."
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"Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth of your inner life will eventually guide you to other insights."
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"Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack."
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"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."
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"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
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"Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too."
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"It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance."
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"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity."
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"I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
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"Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."
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"Painting is something that takes place among the colors."
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"Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other."
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"Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
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"Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer."
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"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
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"Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
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"Death is the side of life which is turned away from us."
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"Fame — the aggregate of all the misunderstandings that collect around a new name."
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