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A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Allow your judgments a silent, undisturbed development, which, like all progress, must come from deep within and cannot be forced or hastened.
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.
At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.

Beauty is nothing

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Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Jug, Fruit tree, Window,— possibly: Pillar, Tower?

Duino Elegies, 9

but beginning of Terror we’re still just able to bear, and why we adore it so is because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Each single angel is terrible.

Duino Elegies 4 [1923], no. 1

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But, once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky!

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