Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

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A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead.

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The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

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There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

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I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

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Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

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Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

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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 everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

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