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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…
- Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a…
- Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible?…
- Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of…
- If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now…
- No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love.…
- Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.
- What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.
- And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of…
- We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This…
- A birdsong can even, for a moment, make the whole world into a sky within us, because we feel that the bird does not distinguish…
- When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.
- Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin…
- My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp;…
- This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable…
- Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.
- They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises…
- If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps…
- To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is…
- The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and…
- Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.
- Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us.
- Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
- Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
- The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
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