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“Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.”

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“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other”

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“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”

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“If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.”

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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”

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“I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.”

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Rainer Maria Rilke quotes (Austro-German lyric poet, author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, 1875-1926)

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“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”

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“When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.”

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“Truly to sing, that is a different breath.”

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“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”

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“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.”

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