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life

love

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natural causes

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is a disasterous temptation, but to be patient in one moment of anger is to escape a hundred days of sorrow.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. Rainer Maria Rilke

Art too is just a way of living. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

is the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned. It is more creative when it shatters the really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer.

It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer.

is only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

Fame is finally only the sum total of all the misunderstanding that can gather around a new name.

is strangely akin to those who die young.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

's purpose is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things. Rainer Maria Rilke

is two solitudes protect and border and salute each other.

is about each partner appointing the other guardian of his solitude.

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

is a creature which at first appears perfectly harmless, but which, like some insect, penetrates into your brain hatches there and flourishes there devastatingly.

There exist a creature that is perfectly harmless... when it passes before your eyes, you hardly notice it and immediately forget it again. But as soon as it somehow, invisibly, gets into your ears, it begins to develop, it hatches, and cases have been known where it has penetrated into the brain and flourished there devastatingly, like the pneumococci in dogs which gain entrance through the nose. . . This creature is Your Neighbor. (Rilke in Zizek 'how to read lacan 38)

is a creature which seems perfectly harmless, but as soon as it somehow, invisibly, gets into your ears, it begins to develop, it hatches, and cases have been known where it has penetrated into the brain and flourished there devastatingly, like the pneumococci in dogs which gain entrance through the nose.

is another year full of things that have never been

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. . . . In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart. .

Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. . . . In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart. .

 drowns out uneasy thoughts with its great wide sounds, cleansing with its noise, and imposing a rhythm upon everything in oneself that is bewildered and confused.

When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused. Rainer Maria Rilke

is good, for it is difficult, and that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

is a season whose return makes the Earth like a child that knows poems.

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

is, always, in its deepest being, something helpless that wants help from us.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

is the purest procedure by which the poetic skill can be recognized.

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