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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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“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
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“Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.”
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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
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“Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.”
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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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“It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.”
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“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”
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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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“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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