“Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home.”
― You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
― You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
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“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
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And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
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“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”
― Spring Snow
― Spring Snow
“Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
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