"All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy."
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"No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to be foreseen. In one's imagining one passes over them and hasty as one is doesn't notice that they are missing. But realities are slow and indescribably detailed."
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"Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life."
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"The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
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"As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."
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"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation."
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"Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive."
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"I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them."
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"Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair."
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"Think... of the world you carry within you."
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"You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing That is more than your own. Let it brush your cheeks As it divides and rejoins behind you. The trees you planted in childhood have grown Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold."
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"Space for the Spirit to breathe."
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"Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
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"Just keep going - no feeling is final."
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"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust."
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"I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life."
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"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."
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"I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way."
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"All things want to float."
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"Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms."
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