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

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

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Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

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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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And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

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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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Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

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Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you.

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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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I am so glad you are here. It helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

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